10 Mark - Albert

Albert reigned as King of Saxony from 1873 until his death in 1902, and this issue spans the last decade of his reign. A decorated Prussian field marshal who commanded the Army of the Meuse during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Albert was one of the few Saxon rulers to earn genuine pan-German military prestige — a fact not lost on the Dresden mint when this gold coinage was produced under the Imperial German standard established by the 1871 currency unification.

Mintage across the full run was modest even by small-state German gold standards.