fwo_323420 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 1 Vereinsthaler Francofurtia 1860 Francfort
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Price : 45.00 €
Type : 1 Vereinsthaler Francofurtia
Date: 1860
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 1699896
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,33 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux STARK ~ IM ~ RECHT ~*~ (rester fort)
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT - FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Francofurtia.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EIN VEREINSTHALER * XXX EIN PFUND FEIN / * 1860 *.
Reverse description : Aigle héraldique.
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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