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1/2 Gulden - Louis II
| Issuer | Bavaria, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1866-1871 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 1/2 GULDEN and the date 1869 are displayed in three lines at the centre of the field, enclosed within a wreath of oak branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The wreath is rendered in fine detail with deeply struck lobed leaves. A beaded border runs along the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1866 - - 1867 - - 99,630 1868 - - 121,344 1869 - - 132,580 1870 - - 110,636 1871 - - 50,711 |
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Louis II's reign coincided with Bavaria's absorption into the German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, and this half-gulden type was rendered obsolete almost immediately by the introduction of the imperial mark system in 1871. The South German gulden states — Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, and Frankfurt — had maintained their own monetary union since 1837, and its dissolution was as much a political capitulation as an economic one.
KM#882 pieces dated 1871 had the shortest window of legal currency life of any in the series.