Live auction - fwo_992171 - GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT Thaler 1796 Francfort
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Live starting : Type : Thaler
Date: 1796
Mint name / Town : Francfort
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 40 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,07 g.
Edge : feuilletée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et régulier. Monnaie agréable
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection d’un descendant du Comte Jacques Defermon (1752-1831) ministre d'État et directeur des finances de 1808 à 1815
Obverse
Obverse legend : DER STADT FRANCKFURT // H * G : B * H.
Obverse description : Aigle impériale couronnée de face, les ailes déployées.
Obverse translation : (Ville de Francfort).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + AUS DEN GEFÆSEN DER KIRCHEN UND BURGER.
Reverse description : Inscription en quatre lignes : * X*/ EINE FEINE/ MARK/ 1796.
Reverse translation : (De la contribution de l’Église et des citoyens - 10 dans un marc de fin).
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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