1 Schilling - Marshal Lefebvre French Occupation, Trial Strike

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.