fwo_925148 - GERMANY - PRINCIPALITY OF HESSE-CASSEL - FREDERICK II 2/3 Thaler 1767 Cassel
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Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : 2/3 Thaler
Date: 1767
Mint name / Town : Cassel
Metal : silver
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,03 g.
Edge : décorée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRIDERICUS II .G. HASS. LANDG. HAN. COM..
Obverse description : Grand buste drapé et cuirassé à droite de Frédéric II.
Reverse
Reverse legend : XX. ST: EINE MARK FEIN / 17 . IUSTIRT . 67.
Reverse description : Armes couronnées de Hesse Cassel soutenues par deux lions.
Historical background
GERMANY - PRINCIPALITY OF HESSE-CASSEL - FREDERICK II
(1760-1785)
Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel (in German Landgraf Friedrich II. von Hessen-Kassel), born August 14, 1720 in Cassel where he died October 31, 1785, at the castle of Weißenstein (now Wilhelmshöhe). He was Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel from 1760 to 1785. Son of William VIII of Hesse-Cassel and Dorothea of Saxe-Zeist (Sachsen-Zeitz), he married in 1740 Marie de Hanover (1723-1772), daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach..
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