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2 Thalers / 31/2 Gulden - Maximilian II New Constitution - Pattern
| Issuer | Bavaria, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1848 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed draped bust of Maximilian II, King of Bavaria, facing right, with short curly hair and a light beard, rendered in high relief in a neoclassical style. The engraver's signature C. VOIGT appears in the lower field beneath the truncation. The circular legend reads MAXIMILIAN II KOENIG V. BAYERN, distributed around the periphery between two plain borders with a beaded outer rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAXIMILIAN II KŒNIG V. BAYERN C.VOIGT |
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Bavaria's 1848 constitutional crisis produced a remarkable numismatic footnote. Maximilian II came to the throne in March of that year, days after his father Ludwig I abdicated under pressure from revolutionary unrest — the same unrest sweeping Frankfurt, Vienna, and Berlin simultaneously. The "New Constitution" inscription references the liberal constitution Maximilian granted in response to that pressure.
This tin striking is a pattern, almost certainly produced for cabinet approval or ministerial presentation rather than circulation consideration. The tin medium was standard practice for Bavarian trial pieces of the period, allowing the Munich mint to demonstrate die quality without committing silver.