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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 67702, member: 39&quot;]Yes, I think so too. Even though in those years each German state had the right to issue &quot;high value&quot; silver and gold coins, there was of course a limit to how many were actually needed. Another issue was that 10 and 20 mark coins could be made by request. Most of these extra issues were ordered by the Reichsbank and made by the Berlin mint, but theoretically anybody could go to a mint, deliver some gold and have coins made from that. According to the Jaeger, of the ~223 million 20 mark pieces issued until 1913, about 176 million were such &quot;extra&quot; orders.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the Hamburg coins, precisely fourteen 20 M pieces were made between 1901 and 1912 - &quot;all&quot; of them in 1908. But if you look at other &quot;smaller&quot; mints, such as Karlsruhe/G, you will notice the same effect: Gold coins were made in relatively few years only.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, Hamburg was not a kingdom. It was and still is a free city, ie. a city that has the status of a state.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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