fwo_905328 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - FREDERICK-WILLIAM IV 1/6 Thaler 1842 Berlin
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Type : 1/6 Thaler
Date: 1842
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 2946000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 521 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,25 g.
Edge : incuse
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRIEDR. WILH. IV. KOENIG V. PREUSSEN / A.
Obverse description : Tête nue à gauche de Frédéric-Guillaume IV.
Reverse
Reverse legend : VI EINEN THALER LXXXIV EINE F.M. / 18 - 42.
Reverse description : écu de Prusse couronné et grand collier.
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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