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1 Vereinsthaler - Louis III
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Value | 7⁄4 Gulden = 1 Vereinsthaler = 1 Vereinsthaler = 1⁄30 Metric |
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| Reverse description | The crowned coat of arms of Hesse-Darmstadt occupies the centre of the field, featuring a rampant lion on a horizontally striped shield surmounted by a grand ducal crown. Two rampant lions serve as heraldic supporters on either side, each resting a forepaw on the shield. The armorial composition is set on a decorative scroll base with the date 1857 in the lower exergue. The circumferential legend, separated by a six-pointed star ornament, reads EIN VEREINSTHALER * XXX EIN PFUND FEIN, with a dentilated border running the full circumference. |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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The Vereinsthaler was the product of the Vienna Coinage Treaty of 1857, which brought the German states and Austria into a unified silver standard — three thalers to the pound of fine silver — in a deliberate attempt to rationalize the monetary patchwork preceding German unification. Hesse-Darmstadt, a mid-tier state perpetually squeezed between Prussian and Austrian ambitions, participated dutifully. Louis III's reign was politically cautious to the point of passivity; his government's position during the Austro-Prussian tensions of the early 1860s shifted more than once.
The 1863 date places this coin just three years before the Austro-Prussian War rendered the entire Vereinsthaler system politically obsolete.