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1 Frank - Jérôme Bonaparte
| Issuer | Kingdom of Westphalia |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Value | 1 Frank |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central denomination '1 FRANK.' displayed in two lines within an open wreath of two olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The date 1808 appears in the exergue below the wreath, with the mint mark J to the right. The legend KOENIG. V. WESTPH. FR. PR. arcs around the upper periphery, all within a beaded border. The overall design closely follows the contemporary French franc coinage style. |
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Jérôme Bonaparte's Kingdom of Westphalia was a Napoleonic showpiece state, carved from Prussian, Hanoverian, and Hessian territories in 1807 and handed to Napoleon's youngest brother as a model constitutional monarchy. Its coinage was deliberately aligned with the French metric system — a pointed rejection of the fragmented monetary systems of the German states it replaced. The kingdom lasted only until 1813, when the collapse of the Russian campaign unraveled the entire Napoleonic client-state network in central Europe.
Fewer than six years of minting means the Westphalian series is short by any measure, and the 1808 issues represent the first full year of production from the Cassel mint.