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3 Mark - Ernest Louis Pattern
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Pn31, Schaaf#76/G1 |
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| Reverse description | The Imperial German eagle displayed with wings spread, rendered in high relief with detailed feathering and bearing the Hessian arms on its breast shield, surrounded by the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The crowned eagle faces left with talons extended, set against a plain field. The legend DEUTSCHES REICH arcs along the upper periphery, the date 1910 appears to the right, and DREI MARK is inscribed along the lower portion flanked by small star ornaments. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1910 A |
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Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, was one of the more artistically minded German rulers of the Wilhelmine period — a patron who pushed for reformed coinage designs under the influence of the Darmstadt artists' colony he founded in 1899. Pattern issues from Hesse-Darmstadt in this period reflect that institutional friction between the Duke's aesthetic ambitions and the conservative approval process of the Imperial German monetary authorities in Berlin, who held final say over any circulating coinage design.
Schaaf 76/G1 places this among the documented pattern submissions that never cleared imperial approval.