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⅙ Thaler - Frederick William III
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1822-1840 |
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| Composition | Silver (.52083) |
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| Reverse description | Central device features the crowned Prussian heraldic shield bearing an eagle displayed, with the bird holding an orb in its left talon and a scepter in its right. The shield is encircled by the collar of the Order of the Black Eagle. The denomination legend VI. EINEN THALER and the fineness legend LXXXIV. EINE F.M. appear around the periphery, with the date in the exergue. An outer beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Mintage | 1822 A - - 3,264,000 1823 A - - 8,580,000 1823 D - - 66,000 1824 A - - 3,504,000 1825 A - - 4,662,000 1826 A - - 3,300,000 1826 D - - 636,000 1827 A - - 972,000 1827 D - - 924,000 1828 D - - 478,674 1835 A - - 60,000 1837 A - - 42,000 1838 A - - 48,000 1839 A - - 576,000 1840 A - - 954,000 1840 D - - 762,000 |
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Frederick William III spent much of his reign threading a careful path between the reactionary demands of his nobility and the liberal pressures building across the German states after 1815. The fractional thaler denominations issued under his name were workhorse coins — absorbed into daily commerce across Prussia's expanded post-Napoleonic territories, including the Rhine provinces acquired at the Congress of Vienna, where French decimal habits had already taken hold and Prussian silver coinage arrived as a foreign novelty.
The lengthy production run across multiple mints accounts for the range of references cited, with die varieties documented under the Olding and Schrötter systems differing primarily by mint mark and reverse legend spacing.