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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2159312, member: 39&quot;]Great coin; I just wrote a comment <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/thaler-german-states-1863-silver-assembly-of-princes.264126/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/thaler-german-states-1863-silver-assembly-of-princes.264126/">here</a>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Note however that this is not actually a &quot;German&quot; eagle but the CoA of the city of Frankfurt.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the years of the Holy Roman Empire, several free cities (ie. places that had no ruler except the emperor &quot;above&quot; them) expressed this independence by using the imperial eagle. Aachen, Lübeck, Nürnberg and some other places still have the eagle, with or without crown, with a single or double head, in their CoA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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