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1/3 Reichsthaler - Frederick William II
| Issuer | Royal Prussian Mint |
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| Year | 1786-1798 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIED. WILHELM KOENIG VON PREUSSEN |
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| Mintage | 1786 A - - 1787 A - - 429,121 1787 B - - 310,585 1787 E - - 244,961 1788 A - - 381,907 1788 B - - 228,129 1788 E - - 581,783 1789 A - - 650,531 1789 B - - 61,944 1789 E - - 1,296,972 1790 A - - 519,520 1790 B - - 49,761 1790 E - - 1,184,975 1791 A - - 324,211 1791 E - - 1,055,811 1792 A - - 312,261 1792 E - - 529,031 1793 A - - 143,491 1793 B - - 185,000 1793 E - - 185,000 1794 E - - 165,741 1795 E - - 139,856 1796 A - - 1796 B - - 74,123 1796 E - - 89,187 1797 B - - 88,586 1797 E - - 117,906 1798 E - - 452,478 |
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Frederick William II inherited the Prussian throne in 1786 following the death of Frederick the Great, and his reign marked a deliberate loosening of the austere fiscal discipline his uncle had enforced. The 1/3 Reichsthaler was a workhorse denomination in the Brandenburg-Prussian monetary system, circulating alongside the increasingly complicated web of North German monetary conventions that Prussia nominally anchored but rarely fully honored in practice.
The wide Schröter reference range — numbers 53 through 79 — reflects significant die variation across the twelve-year run, a known characteristic of this type that specialists track closely.