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2 Frederick d'Or - Frederick William IV
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1853-1855 |
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| Value | 2 Friedrich d`Or (10) |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIEDR.WILHELM IV KOENIG V.PREUSSEN A |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Frederick d'Or was Prussia's prestige gold coin, deliberately maintained as a high-denomination piece for state transactions and merchant trade rather than everyday circulation. Frederick William IV's reign coincided with the turbulent aftermath of the 1848 revolutions, and his government used the continued production of gold coinage partly as a signal of fiscal stability during a period when that stability was genuinely in question.
The two-ducat weight standard traces back to Frederick the Great, who standardized the coin in the 1740s to compete directly with Dutch and Austrian gold in Silesian trade.