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⅙ Thaler - Frederick William III Mint Visit
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1819 |
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| Weight | 5.46 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Frederick William III facing left, rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail including curled hair and military collar. The legend encircles the effigy along the periphery within a beaded border. The portrait is executed in a neoclassical style typical of early 19th-century Prussian coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1819 |
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Frederick William III's 1819 mint visit to the Berlin facility was commemorated with a small series of struck pieces, of which this sixth-thaler is the most modestly denominated. The visit itself came during a period of significant monetary reorganization in Prussia — the kingdom was still rationalizing its coinage system in the years following the Napoleonic disruptions, and the king's personal inspection of the mint carried genuine administrative weight, not merely ceremonial.
AKS#60 lists several varieties under this type; the "e" designation places this among the rarer sub-types in the sequence.