fwo_917385 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 2 Gulden 1845 Francfort
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Type : 2 Gulden
Date: 1845
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 114496
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,24 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux ZWEY *** GULDEN ***
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT FRANKFURT .
Obverse description : Aigle impérial à deux têtes de face, les ailes déployées.
Obverse translation : (Ville libre de Francfort).
Reverse
Reverse legend : 2 / GULDEN / 1845.
Reverse description : dans le champ au centre d’une couronne de rameaux de chêne.
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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