Live auction - fwo_743881 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 2 Thaler 1860
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | 280 € |
| Maximum bid : | 280 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 July 2022 19:17:27 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : 2 Thaler
Date: 1860
Quantity minted : 637033
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 37,04 g.
Edge : en creux
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT - FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Francofurtia.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ZWEI VEREINSTHALER . XV EIN PFUND FEIN // * 1860 *.
Reverse description : aigle héraldique impérial couronné.
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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