fwo_963477 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT 2 Thaler 1861 Francfort
280.00 €(Approx. 291.20$ | 232.40£)
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Type : 2 Thaler
Date: 1861
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Quantity minted : 1786588
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 37,10 g.
Edge : en creux: STARK*IM*RECHT*
Obverse
Obverse legend : FREIE STADT - FRANKFURT.
Obverse description : Buste de Francofurtia à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ZWEI VEREINSTHALER . XV EIN PFUND FEIN // * 1861 *.
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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