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2 Thalers / 3½ Gulden - Maximilian II New Constitution
| Issuer | Bavaria, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1848 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1837-1856) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Bavaria, the female personification of the Kingdom of Bavaria, accompanied by a lion at her side. The design commemorates the granting of the new Bavarian constitution of 1848. The reverse legend VERFAS- SUNG 1848 is prominently displayed, referring to the constitutional reforms of that year. The composition is framed by a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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The "New Constitution" designation on this issue marks a precise political moment: the revolutionary wave of March 1848, which forced Maximilian II to grant Bavaria a revised constitution within weeks of his accession. His father Ludwig I had abdicated in March of that year — undone less by the Frankfurt liberals than by his scandalous relationship with the dancer Lola Montez, whose influence over court appointments had made him politically untenable. Maximilian moved quickly to signal a break from that chaos.
The dual denomination — Thaler and Gulden simultaneously expressed — reflects Bavaria's position straddling two competing monetary conventions as German unification debates made the old regional systems increasingly awkward.