fwo_933636 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM II 5 Mark 1899 Berlin
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Type : 5 Mark
Date: 1899
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 528960
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,73 g.
Edge : en creux
Coments on the condition:
Patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : WILHELM II DEUTSCHER KAISER KÖNIG VON PREUSSEN.
Obverse description : portrait de Guillaume II à droite vu de trois quarts, au-dessous, A.
Obverse translation : (Guillaume II empereur Allemand, roi de Prusse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEUTSCHES REICH 1899 / *FÜNF MARK*.
Reverse description : Aigle impérial héraldique couronné.
Reverse translation : (Empire allemand).
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM II
(15/06/1888-9/11/1918)
William II (27/01/1859-4.06/1941) is the eldest son of Frederick and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. He is therefore the grandson of Queen Victoria of England. Emperor in 1888, he let himself be drawn into the First World War by his staff and had to abdicate in 1918. He took refuge in the Netherlands and died in 1941.
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