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1 Vereinsthaler
| Issuer | Free City of Frankfurt |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| In circulation to | 1876 |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts the crowned Frankfurt eagle displayed, with wings spread and talons extended, rendered in fine relief with detailed feathering. The circular legend reads EIN VEREINSTHALER * XXX EIN PFUND FEIN *, arcing around the upper and lower fields, with asterisk stops separating the inscriptions. The date 1861 appears in the lower exergual area flanked by small decorative stars. A beaded border frames the entire reverse design. |
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| Reverse lettering | * EIN VEREINSTHALER * XXX EIN PFUND FEIN * 1861 |
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Frankfurt's status as a free city — technically sovereign, practically surrounded — was already under existential pressure by 1861. Prussia and Austria were maneuvering for dominance over the German states, and Frankfurt's independence within the Deutscher Bund was increasingly nominal. The city would lose that independence entirely in 1866 when Prussia annexed it following the Austro-Prussian War, ending coinage in Frankfurt's own name after centuries of municipal minting.
The Vereinsthaler standard itself had been fixed by the Vienna Coinage Treaty of 1857, bringing Frankfurt and most German states into a unified weight and fineness regime. This piece is among the later Frankfurt issues struck under that agreement before annexation foreclosed the series.