fwo_942524 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF HAMBURG 2 Schilling armes de la ville / aigle impérial 1762 Hambourg
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Type : 2 Schilling armes de la ville / aigle impérial
Date: 1762
Mint name / Town : Hambourg
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 437 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,94 g.
Edge : décorée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HAMBURGER. - CURRENT // II SCHILL..
Obverse description : Écu aux armes de la ville.
Obverse translation : (Argent courant de Hambourg).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FRANCISCVS D. G. ROM·IMP·SEMP·AVG.
Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale héraldique couronné.
Historical background
GERMANY - FREE CITY OF HAMBURG
Hamburg, a Hanseatic city, managed until 1918 to retain its status as a free city and its independence. The territory was one of the smallest in the Reich with an area of 414 km2 whose population tripled between 1871 and 1914, rising from 334,810 inhabitants in 1871 to 874,878 in 1905..
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