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2 Thalers / 3½ Gulden - Louis I Jean Paul Frederick Richter
| Issuer | Bavaria, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Ludwig I of Bavaria in right-facing profile, rendered with fine detail in high relief, displaying wavy hair and a mustache characteristic of his portraiture. The legend LUDWIG I KŒNIG VON BAYERN runs along the upper periphery in Latin script. The engraver's signature C. VOIGT appears in small letters beneath the truncation of the bust. The portrait is executed in the neoclassical style associated with Voigt's work, set against a flat, unadorned field. The coin is bordered by a continuous dentilated rim. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of the German Romantic author Jean Paul Friedrich Richter depicted on a tall pedestal, facing slightly left, rendered in a classicizing sculptural style representing the actual monument erected in Bayreuth. A double-lined inscription surrounds the central device along the periphery, commemorating the unveiling of the statue. The reverse design is framed within a dentilated border consistent with the obverse. |
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Louis I of Bavaria was a passionate philhellene who had placed his son Otto on the Greek throne in 1832, and this double thaler was struck during the height of his controversial cultural spending — the same period in which he was diverting state funds to construct Munich's neoclassical boulevard, the Ludwigstraße, and bankrolling the poet and novelist Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, known universally as Jean Paul, as a subject of royal commemoration. Jean Paul had actually died in 1825, making this a retrospective issue rather than a contemporary tribute.
The dual denomination — 2 Thalers and 3½ Gulden — reflects the currency compromise forced by the Dresden Convention of 1838, which required German states to reconcile the north German Thaler standard with the south German Gulden system.