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1 Kreuzer Konventionskreuzer
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Frankfurt (German States) |
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| Year | 1803-1805 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing a three-line Latin inscription reading STADT / FRANKFURT / [date], identifying the issuing city. The legends are rendered in bold serif capital letters. The coin is surrounded by a continuous beaded border running along the entire circumference. No effigy or heraldic device is present; the design is purely typographic in the Germanic municipal tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frankfurt's status as a Free Imperial City — and its right to strike its own coinage — was already on borrowed time when these pieces were minted. The Holy Roman Empire dissolved in 1806, just months after the last of this type left the dies, and Frankfurt was absorbed into the Confederation of the Rhine. The Konventionskreuzer standard itself dated to the 1753 Vienna Convention, an attempt to rationalize the chaotic patchwork of German coinage by fixing silver content across participating states. Frankfurt's adherence to that standard in its final imperial years was, in practice, minting into an institutional void.