fwo_851697 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - FREDERICK-WILLIAM IV 1 Thaler 1859 Berlin
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Type : 1 Thaler
Date: 1859
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 17600000
Metal : silver
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,25 g.
Edge : incuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRIEDR. WILHELM IV KOENIG V. PREUSSEN // A.
Obverse description : portrait à droite de frédéric-Guillaume IV de Prusse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EIN VEREINSTHALER - XXX EIN PFUND FEIN / 1859.
Reverse description : aigle héraldique.
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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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