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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1272580, member: 39&quot;]As for the history of Frankfurt, we could add that the city was also where the first democratically elected German parliament had its seat in 1848. A year later that &quot;experiment&quot; was over ... This coin that you showed us refers to that National Assembly: <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1054168&amp;AucID=978&amp;Lot=4289&amp;Val=b7896ab01707e1a26ad4c321d9dc85fa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1054168&amp;AucID=978&amp;Lot=4289&amp;Val=b7896ab01707e1a26ad4c321d9dc85fa" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1054168&amp;AucID=978&amp;Lot=4289&amp;Val=b7896ab01707e1a26ad4c321d9dc85fa</a> (The double headed eagle on that one refers to the empire; Frankfurt used a &quot;normal&quot; eagle to show that it was a Free City.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are three coins in your list that in my opinion are not Frankfurt pieces but from Swedish territories:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058902&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5060&amp;Val=a32e26719fee4fd7d06a65df701c7c1c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058902&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5060&amp;Val=a32e26719fee4fd7d06a65df701c7c1c" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058902&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5060&amp;Val=a32e26719fee4fd7d06a65df701c7c1c</a> (Stralsund, it seems)</p><p><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058872&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5030&amp;Val=e8a5453bfe855a8dae33d7b8598dadbf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058872&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5030&amp;Val=e8a5453bfe855a8dae33d7b8598dadbf" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058872&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5030&amp;Val=e8a5453bfe855a8dae33d7b8598dadbf</a> (there is a reference to Leipzig)</p><p><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058896&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5054&amp;Val=78414764a1333a6d499f7cfd9dc8abf1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058896&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5054&amp;Val=78414764a1333a6d499f7cfd9dc8abf1" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1058896&amp;AucID=981&amp;Lot=5054&amp;Val=78414764a1333a6d499f7cfd9dc8abf1</a> (Riga, I suppose)</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1054172&amp;AucID=978&amp;Lot=4293&amp;Val=3ea00daaf844cebe781b31a4189ae488" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1054172&amp;AucID=978&amp;Lot=4293&amp;Val=3ea00daaf844cebe781b31a4189ae488" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1054172&amp;AucID=978&amp;Lot=4293&amp;Val=3ea00daaf844cebe781b31a4189ae488</a> shows the &quot;Römer&quot; in the heart of Frankfurt. It consists of several houses and served, and still serves, as the city hall. That coin was issued to commemorate the <i>Fürstentag</i>, a meeting of several German rulers aimed at reforming the German Confederation. The Prussian king however decided to not participate. Three years later, after the Prussian-Austrian war of 1866, Prussia annexed Frankfurt. Today Frankfurt is the biggest city in the state of Hesse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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