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1 Theler Judenpfennig
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1807 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The Frankfurt civic arms displayed on a plain shield, charged with two crossed nails (the traditional heraldic emblem of Frankfurt), centered in the field. The shield is flanked by symmetrical laurel branches rising from below and meeting beneath the shield base. Three pellets arranged in a triangular pattern appear above the shield in the upper field. The coin's milled border frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frankfurt's Jewish community was subject to a discriminatory poll tax — the *Stättigkeit* — that had governed their legal residence in the city since the medieval period. In 1807, Napoleon's reorganization of the Rhineland brought these arrangements under pressure, and the city issued this copper token as a receipt instrument tied to that fiscal apparatus. Full Jewish emancipation in Frankfurt followed in 1811, rendering the entire system — and this token with it — obsolete within four years of issue.