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1⁄48 Thaler - Frederick I
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1705 |
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| Value | 1⁄48 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Five-line inscription filling the entire field, reading '48 / EINEN / REICHS·TH / 1705 / BH', denoting the denomination as one forty-eighth of a Reichsthaler, with the date 1705 on the fourth line and the mintmaster's initials BH on the fifth line. The lettering is rendered in serif capitals in the German Baroque tradition. A toothed border surrounds the periphery. |
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Frederick I had secured the Prussian royal title only four years before this issue, having famously crowned himself at Königsberg in 1701 to sidestep the protocol that required a pope or emperor to perform the ceremony. The 1/48 Thaler denomination was essentially small change, and billon issues of this weight rarely survived heavy circulation in readable condition — most were melted or lost to the gutter economy of early 18th-century Brandenburg towns.