fwo_735535 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - FREDERICK-WILLIAM IV 1/2 Silbergroschen 1856 Berlin
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Type : 1/2 Silbergroschen
Date: 1856
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,10 g.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRIEDR. WILH. IV KOENIG V. PREUSSEN.
Obverse description : Tête à droite de Guillaume IV.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 60 EINEN THALER / SCHEIDE MÜNZE.
Reverse description : 1/2 / SILBER / GROSCHEN / 1856 / A.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - FREDERICK-WILLIAM IV
(7/06/1840-2/01/1861)
Frédéric-Guillaume IV (1795-1861) was the eldest son of Frédéric-Guillaume III and Louise of Mecklenburg. He succeeded his father in 1840. Liberal, he changed his mind with the pan-European revolution of 1848. He lost his mind and his brother, the future William I, assumed the regency from 1856. Frédéric-Guillaume IV died in 1861 childless. He had married Elizabeth of Bavaria. His brother William I then ascended the throne.
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