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1 Vereinsthaler - Frederick William IV
| Issuer | Kingdom of Prussia |
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| Year | 1857-1861 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#471, Dav GT III#775 |
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| Reverse description | The Prussian eagle displayed at center, depicted with wings spread, head turned to the right, breast adorned with the Hohenzollern scepter and orb crossed below, and a floral collar around the neck; the whole surmounted by a royal crown. The circumferential legend reads EIN VEREINSTHALER to the left and XXX EIN PFUND FEIN to the right, with the date of issue inscribed in the lower exergual area. A finely executed beaded border frames the entire composition. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Vereinsthaler was the product of the Vienna Coinage Treaty of 1857, which bound the German states and Austria to a unified silver standard intended to smooth commerce across dozens of borders. Prussia had already been producing Thalers of near-identical weight under earlier conventions, so the transition was largely administrative — the intrinsic change was modest, but the political symbolism of Prussian acquiescence to a pan-German monetary framework was not lost on contemporaries.
Frederick William IV was by 1857 increasingly incapacitated by a series of strokes, and his brother Wilhelm effectively governed as regent from 1858 onward. Coins bearing his name were struck into 1861, the year of his death.