fwo_894733 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 1 Gulden 1842 Francfort
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Price : 70.00 €
Type : 1 Gulden
Date: 1842
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 123092
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,61 g.
Edge : sécurisée
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT. // FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Aigle impérial les ailes déployées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 1 / GULDEN / 1842.
Reverse description : Légende sur trois lignes dans une couronne végétale.
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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