fwo_1023128 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 6 Kreuzer Ville libre de Francfort 1851 Francfort
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Type : 6 Kreuzer Ville libre de Francfort
Date: 1851
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 159420
Metal : billon
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,49 g.
Edge : sécurité
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRANKFURT - FREIE STADT.
Obverse description : aigle héraldique.
Obverse translation : (ville libre de Francfort).
Reverse
Reverse legend : 6 / KREUZER / 1851.
Reverse description : dans une couronne de feuilles de chêne.
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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