fwo_942351 - GERMANY - FRANKFURT FREE CITY 1/2 Gulden aigle 1841

GERMANY - FREE CITY OF FRANKFURT

Frankfort was the electoral capital of the Empire. It had obtained the right to mint coins in 1428. A free city, it was absorbed into the Confederation of the Rhine by Napoleon in 1806. Once again a free city after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as part of the German Confederation, it was integrated into the Prussia after the Austrian defeat at Sadowa in 1866.