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fwo_1070504 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT Thaler 1859 Francfort
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Type : Thaler
Date: 1859
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 282889
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,55 g.
Edge : en creux: STARK*IM*RECHT*
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT - FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Buste de Francofurtia à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EIN VEREINSTHALER . XXX EIN PFUND FEIN // * 1859 *.
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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