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⅙ Thaler - Frederick II
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1753 |
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| Value | ⅙ Thaler |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1753 C |
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Frederick II debased Prussia's silver coinage repeatedly during the Seven Years' War, but this 1753 issue predates that period — it belongs to a brief window of relative monetary stability before the war's financial pressures took hold. The .521 fineness places it in a middle tier of the Frederician silver hierarchy, where the thaler fractions circulated heavily in daily trade rather than treasury transfers.
The Kluge and Olding references both note variant distinctions within this type; the FR#50b designation specifically separates this from the earlier FR#50a by die characteristics that remain a point of study among specialists in Hohenzollern coinage.