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2 Thalers / 3½ Gulden - Maximilian II Exhibition of German Products
| Issuer | Bavarian State Mint |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A perspective view of the Munich exhibition hall, depicted as a long neoclassical structure occupying the central field, with the arched legend ALLGEMEINE AUSSTELLUNG DEUTSCHER INDUSTRIE UND GEWERBS-ERZEUGNISSE curving above in two concentric lines. Below the building, separated by a horizontal ground line, the place name MÜNCHEN and the date 1854 appear in the lower exergual area, all enclosed within a beaded and dentilated border. |
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This piece was struck to commemorate the First General German Industrial Exhibition held in Munich in 1854 — Bavaria's answer to London's Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851. The Munich event drew over a million visitors and was explicitly framed as a showcase of German economic and technological ambition under Bavarian cultural leadership, at a moment when the question of which German state would anchor a unified nation remained genuinely open.
Maximilian II saw the exhibition as political theater as much as commerce, and the commemorative coinage was part of that calculation.