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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mynter, post: 1644374, member: 40061&quot;]My latest empire - aquisition was really &quot; a hard to come by &quot; - one. 1875 was the year when the Hamburg - mint opened. Hamburg had at last joined the mark - currency in 1874 ( 3 years after the Emire was founded ), in 1874 the City Parlament decided to establish a Mint of there own. When they discovered they had to cover the expenses they almost backed off again, but as a place of commerce cash allways was needed, so there was a strong demand for beeing able to produce coins. After some trial strikes in late 1874 the newborne Mint finally started producing in early 1875 . The first coin struck with the Mintmark &quot; I &quot; ( depicted as J though ) was the golden 10 - mark, followed by the whole run ranging from 1 pfennig to 20 mark.</p><p>As I like the Hamburg coins very much I have the idea of putting together the entire 1875 - set( plus the 2 mark of 1876 and the golden 5 mark of 1877 ). Today the dollar size 5 - mark could join in, now I am only missing the 5 and 10 pfennig and the 1 mark to be completed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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