fwo_1091915 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 1 Kreuzer Ville libre de Francfort 1844 Francfort
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Type : 1 Kreuzer Ville libre de Francfort
Date: 1844
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 215000
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 167 ‰
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,82 g.
Edge : lisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT // FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : aigle aux ailes déployées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 1 / KREUZER / 1844.
Reverse description : entre deux rameaux.
Historical background
GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT
Frankfort was the electoral capital of the Empire. It had obtained the right to mint coins in 1428. A free city, it was absorbed into the Confederation of the Rhine by Napoleon in 1806. Once again a free city after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as part of the German Confederation, it was integrated into the Prussia after the Austrian defeat at Sadowa in 1866.
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