fwo_1057542 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 2 Gulden élection de Jean Archiduc d’Autriche 1848
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Type : 2 Gulden élection de Jean Archiduc d’Autriche
Date: 1848
Quantity minted : 36065
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,16 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux ZWEY *** GULDEN ***
Coments on the condition:
Anciennes traces de nettoyage, patine sombre
Obverse
Obverse legend : * CONSTITUIRENDE VERSAMMLUNG I.D.F. STADT FRANKFURT 18. MAI 1848.
Obverse description : Aigle impérial à deux têtes de face, les ailes déployées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : * ERWAHLT ZUM REICHSVERWESER ÜBER DEUTSCHLAND D. 29 IUNI 1848.
Reverse description : en légende circulaire, au centre en quatre lignes : ERHERZOG/ JOHANN/ VON/ OESTERREICH ; au-dessous deux palmes.
Commentary
Après la révolution de mars 1848, la première assemblée nationale allemande est élue à Francfort et nomme le 29 juin 1848 nomme l'archiduc Jean-Baptiste d'Autriche, régent impérial. Sous pression de la Prusse, il démissionne de ce poste le 20 décembre 1849.
After the March Revolution of 1848, the first German National Assembly was elected in Frankfurt and appointed Archduke John the Baptist of Austria as Imperial Regent on June 29, 1848. Under pressure from Prussia, he resigned from this post on December 20, 1849.
After the March Revolution of 1848, the first German National Assembly was elected in Frankfurt and appointed Archduke John the Baptist of Austria as Imperial Regent on June 29, 1848. Under pressure from Prussia, he resigned from this post on December 20, 1849.
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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