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fwo_750248 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 2 Thaler 1866 Francfort
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Price : 290.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 290.00 €
Type : 2 Thaler
Date: 1866
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 637000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 37,01 g.
Edge : encreux
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage. Patine légèrement tachée au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT - FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Buste de Francofurtia à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ZWEI VEREINSTHALER . XV EIN PFUND FEIN // * 1866 *.
Reverse description : Aigle héraldique impérial couronné.
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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