fwo_748390 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 1 Thaler centenaire de Schiller 1859 Francfort
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : 1 Thaler centenaire de Schiller
Date: 1859
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 24560
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,49 g.
Edge : en creux
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT // FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Aigle héraldique couronné, ailes déployées.
Obverse translation : (Ville libre de Francfort).
Reverse
Reverse legend : EIN GEDENKTHALER // AM 10. NOV. 1859.
Reverse description : ZU / SCHILLER’S/ HUNDERTJAHRIGER/ GEBURTSFEIER.
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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