Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Schilling - Marshal Lefebvre French Occupation, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Danzig, City of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1808-1812 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Schilling (1 Szelag) (1⁄270) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Danzig fell to Napoleon's forces in 1807 after a two-month siege, and the city was reconstituted as a nominally independent free city under French protection — effectively a garrison state administered by Marshal François-Joseph Lefebvre, who held the title Duke of Danzig. French-supervised local coinage was authorized for the occupied city, but production was erratic and many proposed types never reached full circulation issue. Trial strikes like this piece occupy an ambiguous status: struck to test dies or gauge approval from occupation authorities, they exist outside the normal documentary record of mint output.
Kopicki 7807 places this among the rarer documented trial pieces of the occupation series.