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1 Silbergroschen - Frederick William III
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1821-1840 |
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| Currency | Vereinsthaler (1821-1873) |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIEDR. WILH. III KOENIG V. PREUSSEN |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Frederick William III's monetary reforms of the early 1820s were partly a response to the chaotic proliferation of small coinage that had plagued Prussia through the Napoleonic period, during which occupation, tribute payments, and emergency issues had left the currency in a degraded state. The Silbergroschen was introduced as part of a rationalized decimal-adjacent system anchoring the Thaler to thirty Groschen — a deliberate administrative simplification.
The nineteen-year production run across multiple mints accounts for the substantial die variety documentation in Schramm's numbering, which spans over thirty individual references for this type alone.