2 Gulden Constitutional Convention, Mule

Frankfurt's 1848 2 Gulden issues are already bound up in one of the most consequential political failures of the nineteenth century — the Frankfurt Parliament's doomed attempt to draft a unified German constitution. This particular piece is a mule, combining dies from two different intended strikings, almost certainly a product of the controlled chaos at the mint during a year when the city found itself suddenly hosting a revolutionary national assembly it had not planned for.

Mules from this issue are scarce and not always cleanly documented in the census literature. The Thun 134a attribution separates it from the standard striking.