Hay, Arnold,
MC 68K was created in 1980 or thereabouts. We talked about 10's of Megahertz, I think, in those times.
The original X series part was originally unnumbered but a sticker was later set for the lids that said X68000 (I had one on my desk - which was used for the Tektronix Magnolia prototype).[1] The X series ran at 8 Mhz, but the original released (distributed - MC68000) part was binned at 8 and 10 as were the later versions with the updated paging microcode called the MC68010 a year later. When the 68020 was released Moto got the speeds up to 16Mhz and later 20. By the '040 I think they were running at 50MHz
[1] I think I still have the draft list of issues in my files. There was a halt and catch fire style error you had to be careful about (I've forgotten the details - but if you executed it in supervisor mode, the ucode turned on the address drivers in such a manner that they stopped working after that and the chip was ruined). I only did that once ;-) when we were debugging Magix (the OS for Magnolia)