Issued to commemorate the German Federal Shooting Festival held in Frankfurt in 1863, this gulden belongs to a wave of shooting festival issues that the German states used as much for political signaling as for celebration. Baden's participation carried particular weight — the Grand Duchy was one of the more liberally governed states, and these festivals were understood by contemporaries as rehearsals for German national unity, barely six years before unification would actually arrive.
KM#247 is a one-year type with no known significant die varieties.
Issued to commemorate the German Federal Shooting Festival held in Frankfurt in 1863, this gulden belongs to a wave of shooting festival issues that the German states used as much for political signaling as for celebration. Baden's participation carried particular weight — the Grand Duchy was one of the more liberally governed states, and these festivals were understood by contemporaries as rehearsals for German national unity, barely six years before unification would actually arrive.
KM#247 is a one-year type with no known significant die varieties.