Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1027. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Friedrich Franz IV. Grand Duke, 1897-1918. AR 3 Mark. Dated 1915. FRIEDR • FRANZ • I • 1815 • FRIEDR • FRANZ • IV • 1915 • GROSSHERZOGE v MECKLENB • SCHW •, busts of Friedrich Franz I and Friedrich Franz IV facing left, JAHRHVNDERTFEIER below / DEUTSCHES REICH 1915 • DREI MARK •, crowned eagle, head left, coat of arms on chest. Jäger 88; KM 340. In NGC slab graded PF 65 CAMEO, lightly toned.

This issue celebrates the centennial of Friedrich Franz I’s rise to the rank of Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1815 shortly after the Napoleonic Wars.