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10 Mark - George II
| Issuer | Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1902-1914 |
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| Weight | 3.982 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Munich Mint (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt), Munich |
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Saxe-Meiningen was one of the smallest and most financially constrained of the German states, and its gold coinage was struck in genuinely limited quantities — the 10 Mark issues under Georg II total only a few thousand pieces across the entire run. The Berlin Mint handled production, as the duchy had no facility of its own.
Georg II is better remembered as a pioneering theatre director than as a sovereign, having transformed the Meiningen Court Theatre into one of the most influential ensembles in 19th-century Europe. His coins circulated through the same imperial monetary union as Prussia's, fungible in commerce but minted in numbers that guaranteed most would vanish into hoards.