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3 Mark - Ernest Louis Jubilee - Pattern
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 33.01 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned Imperial German eagle displayed with wings spread, the head turned to the right, and a quartered shield bearing the Hessian lion on the breast. The eagle is rendered in fine detail with elaborately engraved feathers and heraldic ornamentation. The legend DEUTSCHES REICH arcs around the upper periphery, flanked by the date 1917 to the right, while DREI MARK appears in the lower exergue flanked by decorative stars. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Hesse-Darmstadt's Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig commissioned this jubilee issue to mark his 25th year of reign in 1917 — a remarkably tone-deaf gesture given the war casualties the grand duchy had suffered by that point. It never entered circulation. As a pattern, KM#Pn32 exists in extremely limited numbers, struck for approval or presentation rather than production, and the broader jubilee coinage program was largely stillborn amid wartime austerity pressures on the German states.