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3 Mark - Ernest Louis
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCHES REICH 1910 * DREI MARK * |
| Edge | Lettered: GOTT MIT UNS |
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Ernest Louis issued this three-mark piece to mark the tercentenary of the Ernestine line — or more precisely, the 1910 issue commemorates the 400th anniversary of the University of Giessen, founded in 1607 by Landgrave Ludwig V. Ernest Louis himself had a complicated relationship with German imperial politics, having been forced to abdicate in 1918 after backing the wrong factions one too many times.
Hesse-Darmstadt's commemorative coinage under the empire was tightly regulated by the 1871 imperial coinage law, which permitted German states to strike commemoratives only under specific petitions to Berlin.