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2 Ducats Tricentenary of the Reformation, Silver pattern
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1817 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a five-line German inscription reading EIN HERR / EIN GLAUBE / EINE TAUFE / EIN GOTT UND / VATER ALLER, all within a plain inner border. A circular legend in Latin script surrounds the central text along the rim, reading VEREINTE EVANGEL. CHRISTEN D. FREIEN STADT FRANKFURT. The design is entirely typographic with no figurative elements, executed in a clean, upright serif typeface consistent with early nineteenth-century German coin production. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frankfurt issued gold 2-ducat pieces for the 1817 Reformation tercentenary — this silver striking is a pattern, almost certainly produced for presentation or archival purposes rather than any intended circulation. The city lost its status as a free imperial city to Napoleonic reorganization in 1806 and was only restored as such by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, making this 1817 issue one of the first major commemoratives struck under its recovered autonomy.