fwo_353727 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 1 Gedenktaler du Concours de Tir Allemand de Juillet 1862 1862 FRANCFORT
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : 1 Gedenktaler du Concours de Tir Allemand de Juillet 1862
Date: 1862
Mint name / Town : FRANCFORT
Quantity minted : 44334
Metal : silver
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,56 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux
Coments on the condition:
Cet exemplaire conserve tout son brillant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT // FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Aigle héraldique couronné.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EIN GEDENKTHALER-ZUM DEUTSCHEN SCHÜTZENFESTE.
Reverse description : Dans le champ : JULI - 1862, Victoire appuyée sur un bouclier tenant une couronne.
Historical background
GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT
Frankfort was the electoral capital of the Empire. It had obtained the right to mint coins in 1428. A free city, it was absorbed into the Confederation of the Rhine by Napoleon in 1806. Once again a free city after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as part of the German Confederation, it was integrated into the Prussia after the Austrian defeat at Sadowa in 1866.
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