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20 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1763 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The imperial double-headed eagle of Frankfurt, crowned, displayed upon an ornate pedestal bearing the denomination numeral '60' (denoting 60 to the mark fine silver), flanked by elaborate foliate and floral branches. The exergue carries the two-line inscription '60 EINE MARK FEIN SILBER' and the engraver's initials 'IOT' below. The circular legend 'AD NORMAM CONVENTIONIS' runs along the periphery, referring to the Convention coinage standard of 1753. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frankfurt's 1763 coinage falls squarely in the shadow of the Seven Years' War, which had ended that same year with the Treaty of Hubertusburg. The Free City had spent the war years under French occupation — French troops held Frankfurt from 1759 to 1763 — leaving municipal finances strained and the local money supply disrupted. This issue was part of the recovery coinage that followed.
KM#225 is a single-year type for this denomination, with no continuation into subsequent years, which likely reflects the ad hoc nature of post-occupation fiscal stabilization rather than any planned series.