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1 Vereinsthaler - Louis II Obverse Trial
| Issuer | Royal Bavarian Mint (Munich) |
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| Year | 1866-1871 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in youthful right-facing profile, with finely rendered wavy hair falling to the nape of the neck, truncated at the neck without drapery. The portrait, engraved by Carl Friedrich Voigt, exhibits a high-relief neoclassical style with precise facial modeling. The circular legend reads LUDWIG II KOENIG V. BAYERN, distributed along the periphery in Roman capitals. The field is smooth and unadorned, and the coin is bordered by a bold dentillated inner rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Trial pieces from the Royal Bavarian Mint in this period occupy an odd documentary role: they record die development and approval stages that the finished coinage erases. The Vereinsthaler itself was a treaty coin — its specifications fixed by the Dresden Convention of 1838 and later the Vienna Coinage Treaty of 1857 — meaning any trial had to conform to agreed cross-border standards before a single circulation strike could proceed.
Louis II came to the Bavarian throne in 1864 at eighteen. His approval was a formal requirement, and obverse trials for portrait coinage were a standard checkpoint in that process.