fwo_934766 - GERMANY - PRINCIPALITY OF HESSE-CASSEL - FREDERICK II 1/4 Thaler 1771
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Type : 1/4 Thaler
Date: 1771
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,67 g.
Edge : décorée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : 543 1/3 ST:EINE MARK FEIN·.
Obverse description : Armoiries couronnées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FURSTL: HESS: LAND M. IUSTIRI.
Reverse description : IV / EINEN / REICHS / THAL / 1771.
Commentary
Frédéric II (1714-1785) est landgrave de Hesse-Cassel de 1760 à 1785.
Historical background
GERMANY - PRINCIPALITY OF HESSE-CASSEL - FREDERICK II
(1760-1785)
Frederick II of Hesse-Cassel (in German Landgraf Friedrich II. von Hessen-Kassel), born August 14, 1720 in Cassel where he died October 31, 1785, at the castle of Weißenstein (now Wilhelmshöhe). He was Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel from 1760 to 1785. Son of William VIII of Hesse-Cassel and Dorothea of Saxe-Zeist (Sachsen-Zeitz), he married in 1740 Marie de Hanover (1723-1772), daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach..
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