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fwo_368471 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT Essai en argent de 2 Ducats du couronnement de Léopold II 1790 Francfort

GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT Essai en argent de 2 Ducats du couronnement de Léopold II 1790 Francfort AU
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Price : 115.00 €
Type : Essai en argent de 2 Ducats du couronnement de Léopold II
Date: 1790
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,92 g.
Catalogue references :
KM/WC.18/Pn62

Obverse

Obverse legend : LEOPOLDUS II. ROMANORUM IMPERATUR.
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite de Léopold II.

Reverse

Reverse legend : FELICITAS PUBLICA // ELECT. FRANCOF.DXXX SEPT/ MDCCIXXXX.
Reverse description : Autel supportant la couronne impériale et deux sceptres.

Commentary

Essai pour la pièce en or de 2 Ducats KM279.

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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