fwo_890515 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 2 Gulden 1850 Francfort
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Type : 2 Gulden
Date: 1850
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 31472
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,19 g.
Edge : sécurisée
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Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Aigle héraldique impérial couronné.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 2 / GULDEN / 1850.
Reverse description : 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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