Live auction - fwo_547895 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - FREDERICK III 2 Mark 1888 Berlin

GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - FREDERICK III 2 Mark 1888 Berlin MS

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Estimate :	100 €
Price :	128 €
Maximum bid :	131 €
End of the sale :	29 October 2019 17:06:49
bidders :	6 bidders

Type : 2 Mark

Date: 1888

Mint name / Town : Berlin

Quantity minted : 500000

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 11,15 g.

Catalogue references :

AKS.122 - KM19/510

Obverse

Obverse legend : FRIEDRICH DEUTSCHER KAISER KÖNIG V.PREUSSEN // A.

Obverse description : portrait à droite.

Obverse translation : (Frédéric Empereur d’Allemagne roi de Prusse).

Reverse

Reverse legend : DEUTSCHES REICH 1888// *ZWEI MARK*.

Reverse description : Aigle impériale couronnée, timbrée d'un écu orné d'une aigle, entouré du collier de l'ordre allemand.

Reverse translation : (Empire allemand).

Commentary

Fils de l’Empereur d’Allemagne Guillaume Ier, Frédéric III devient kaiser le 3 mars 1888 à la mort de son père. Atteint d’un cancer du larynx, il décède après 99 jours de règne le 15 juin 1888 sans avoir pû mettre en oeuvre ses idées libérales.
Son of the German Emperor Wilhelm I, Frederick III became Kaiser on March 3, 1888, upon the death of his father. Suffering from laryngeal cancer, he died after 99 days of reign on June 15, 1888, without having been able to implement his liberal ideas.