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⅔ Thaler - Paul Frederick
| Issuer | Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand duchy of |
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| Year | 1839-1841 |
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| Value | ⅔ Reichsthaler = 1⁄18 Cologne Mark |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Grand Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair. The truncation of the neck is plain and unadorned. A circumscribed Latin legend runs along the outer rim within a beaded border, reading PAUL FRIEDR. GROSSHERZOG V. MECKLENBURG SCHWERIN. |
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| Reverse lettering | XVIII STUCK EINE MARK FEIN SILBER 1840 |
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The two-thirds thaler denomination was a peculiarity of the North German monetary system, persisting well into the nineteenth century largely because it aligned with the Hamburg banco standard rather than the Prussian-dominated Conventionsthaler system. Mecklenburg-Schwerin clung to it longer than most. Paul Frederick's reign was brief — he died in 1842 after fewer than four years on the throne — making the production window for this type correspondingly narrow.
Kunzel 399 is the standard attribution for the type; collector interest tends to cluster around die variants documented within that reference rather than the KM listing.