fwo_942349 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 1 Heller 1862
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Price : 20.00 €
Type : 1 Heller
Date: 1862
Quantity minted : 391000
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,26 g.
Edge : lisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : SCHEIDEMÜNZE D. FR. ST. FRANKFURT *.
Obverse description : aigle héraldique.
Obverse translation : (Monnaie divisionnaire de la ville libre de Francfort).
Reverse
Reverse legend : * 1 * / HELLER / 1862.
Reverse description : dans le champ.
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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