10 Mark - George II

Saxe-Meiningen was one of the smallest of the German successor states entitled to strike gold coinage under the imperial monetary conventions of 1871 — a privilege jealously maintained by even the most minor dynasties as a mark of sovereign standing. Georg II, ruling a duchy of fewer than 250,000 souls, nonetheless secured his place on federally standardized gold. The Berlin mint struck all issues for Meiningen throughout this period, as the duchy maintained no mint of its own.

Mintages were tiny. The combined output across the entire 1890–1898 run rarely surfaces in contemporary auction records, making even circulated examples genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.