10 Mark - Frederick William

Mecklenburg-Strelitz was among the smallest and least populous states in the German Empire, yet retained the right to strike its own coinage under the imperial monetary law of 1871. Frederick William issued these gold 10 Mark pieces across a span of just a few years before his death in 1904, but the mintages were negligible — the state's population barely exceeded 100,000, and demand for circulating gold was largely met by Prussian issues. Most surviving examples show little wear for precisely that reason.

All pieces were struck at the Berlin mint, which handled coinage for several of the smaller German states lacking their own facilities.