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| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1765 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | S · F |
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Frankfurt's fractional billon issues of the 1760s served the grinding small commerce of a city whose status as a Free Imperial City made it both a major trade hub and a perpetual administrative curiosity — sovereign enough to mint, too commercially entangled to standardize neatly with neighboring states. The 1765 date falls within the reign of Joseph II as Holy Roman Emperor-elect, crowned at Frankfurt's Römer just four years prior.
These quarter-kreuzer pieces circulated hard among Frankfurt's working population and survivors in collectible condition are genuinely scarce.