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1 Vereinsthaler
| Issuer | Free City of Frankfurt |
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| Year | 1862-1865 |
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| Weight | 18.52 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Frankfurter Römer, the allegorical female personification of the Free City of Frankfurt, facing right, her elaborately coiffed hair adorned with a floral wreath and ribbons, wearing an ornate garment with a decorative clasp at the neck. The engraver's signature A. NORDHEIM appears in small letters at the lower truncation. The circumscribed legend reads FREIE STADT FRANKFURT, divided left and right of the portrait, all within a plain beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1862 - - 312,000 1863 - - 21,000 1864 - - 105,013 1865 - - 206,693 |
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Frankfurt lost its status as a free city entirely in 1866, when Prussia annexed it following the Austro-Prussian War — making this short issue one of the last coinage series the city would ever produce under its own authority. The Vereinsthaler standard itself was a product of the 1857 Vienna Coinage Treaty, which unified the currencies of the German states and Austria into a single tariff system, replacing the older Thaler weights and forcing Frankfurt's mint to conform alongside the major kingdoms.
Production ended abruptly with annexation, not by design.