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2 Thalers / 3½ Gulden - Louis I Academy of Erlangen
| Issuer | Bavaria, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1843 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#817, Dav GT III#590 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | LUDWIG I KOENIG VON BAYERN C. VOIGT |
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This coin commemorates the 100th anniversary of the University of Erlangen, founded in 1743 by Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. The university's founding is itself a minor dynastic curiosity — Friedrich established it partly to provide a Protestant counterweight to the Catholic University of Ingolstadt, a confessional rivalry that still shaped Bavarian educational politics a century later when this piece was struck.
The dual denomination — 2 Thalers in the north German reckoning, 3½ Gulden in the south — reflects Bavaria's awkward monetary position before the Thaler was standardized across the German states in 1857.