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1 Conventionsthaler - Louis I Geschichtstaler, Mortgage Bank - Pattern
| Issuer | Bavaria, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Currency | Conventionsthaler (1806-1837) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait bust of King Ludwig I of Bavaria facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curling hair and mustache in the neoclassical style. The engraver's signature C. VOIGT appears beneath the truncation. The circular legend arcs around the upper field reading LUDWIG I KOENIG VON BAYERN, while the lower field bears the fineness inscription ZEHN EINE FEINE MARK. The portrait is surrounded by a fine beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | A classically draped female figure, personifying Commerce or Bavaria, stands in three-quarter view leaning with her right arm raised and resting upon a tall rectangular pedestal decorated with a caduceus in relief, symbolizing trade and prosperity. The figure wears sandals and her hair is pinned up in the antique fashion. The date 1835 appears in the exergue below, while the encircling legend ERRICHTUNG DER BAYERISCHEN HYPOTHEKEN-BANK arcs around the upper and lateral fields. The composition is enclosed by a beaded border. |
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The Geschichtstaler series was commissioned by Ludwig I as a deliberate cultural program — coins as state propaganda, commemorating Bavarian history and the king's own building ambitions across Munich. This particular piece honors the founding of the Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank, Bavaria's mortgage bank, established in 1835 to stabilize land credit after years of agricultural debt crises in the kingdom.
The gold pattern at this weight — nearly double a standard convention thaler in gold — was never intended for circulation. Pattern strikes of this type were produced for presentation to court officials and royal favorites. Most surviving examples trace back to cabinet collections assembled in the 19th century.