Coin Pièce Frankfurt 1 thaler Silver 1860 Francfort (C)

The 1 Vereinsthaler of Frankfurt, struck in 1860, is a coin issued by the Free City of Frankfurt, one of the German states of the time. This currency is part of the Vereinsthaler monetary system, established by the Treaty of Vienna of 1857, which aimed to unify the various currencies of the German and Austrian states.

The obverse of this coin features the Frankfurt Eagle, the emblematic heraldic symbol of the free city, accompanied by inscriptions specific to the monetary identity of the city. The reverse depicts an allegory of the Free City of Frankfurt, a symbolic representation recalling the particular political status of this city-state within the German Confederation.

This coin is composed of silver with a fineness of 900?, i.e. 90% fine silver, in accordance with the metallic standards defined by the monetary treaty of 1857. It has a weight of 18.52 grams and a diameter of 33 millimetres, dimensions also standardised by the Vereinsthaler agreements.

The coin was struck at the Frankfurt (C) mint, and its mintage reached 1,699,896 examples, making it a relatively abundant issue for this period. The year 1860 corresponds to a pivotal period for Frankfurt, which still retained its status as a free and independent city before the Prussian annexation of 1866. These coins thus represent the final years of the monetary sovereignty of this city, lending this example a particularly significant historical dimension in the numismatic history of the pre-unification German states.