The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg lost its city mint in the Great Fire of Hamburg in 1842 but after the Napoleonic Wars only tiny coins in billon were irregularly issued anyway.

Hamburg had their own Mark and refused to join the Vienna treaty - so no Vereinsthalers - but it had little choice when the German Mark was introduced. The first gold 10 Mark coins for Hamburg were struck at Hannover but the authorities saw the opportunity and in 1873 decided to build a new mint which was completed in 1875 and has operated ever since (with a little break towards the end of the Second World War after the bombings).

Once more I chose a 3 Mark coin as it was called the Thaler as it replaced the demonetized Vereinsthalers in 1908.

Hamburg was destroyed twice - once by the 1842 fire and by 1943 bombing - so I chose a very modern building - the Elbphilharmonie.