fwo_994118 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT Double Thaler 1862 Francfort
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Type : Double Thaler
Date: 1862
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 344410
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 40 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 37,09 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux STARK IM RECHT
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Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT - FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Buste à droite d’une femme représentant la ville de Francfort, signature sur la tranche du cou : A. v. NORDHEIM.
Obverse translation : (Ville libre de Francfort).
Reverse
Reverse legend : XV EIN PFUND FEIN/ +1862+/ ZWEI VEREINSTHALER.
Reverse description : Aigle couronnée de face, les ailes déployées.
Reverse translation : (15 dans une livre de fin / 2 thalers de convention).
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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