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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1554582, member: 39&quot;]The two eagles have two different meanings here. The piece commemorates the opening of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Parliament" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Parliament" rel="nofollow">National Assembly</a> in 1848. The crowned single-headed eagle* refers to the city of Frankfurt, the double eagle refers to Germany as a whole, which the parliament represented. But since the parliament was basically a &quot;child&quot; of the 1848 revolution, the Prussian king and some other rulers would not accept things like a constitutional monarchy and other &quot;strange&quot; ideas that the National Assembly had ...</p><p><br /></p><p>(* In the Holy Roman Empire quite a few free cities used the eagle in their CoA to indicate that they had no ruler but the emperor &quot;above&quot; them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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