German States, Prussia Sieges Thaler Prussia Siegesthaler 1871 A Wilhelm I Berlin silver KM 500 victory thaler gVF

Kingdom of Prussia, Siegesthaler of 1 thaler, 1871, mintmark A for Berlin, Wilhelm I, silver.

Obverse: bust of Wilhelm I to the right, legend WILHELM KOENIG VON PREUSSEN, the letter A below the truncation.

Reverse: Borussia, the female personification of Prussia, crowned and seated on a throne with a shield at her side, legend SIEGES THALER, the year 1871 in the exergue.

Edge: GOTT MIT UNS, God with us.

References: KM# 500, AKS 118, Jaeger 99, Thun 272, Davenport 785.

The coin marks the German victory over France. On 18 January 1871 Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, where Otto von Bismarck read out the proclamation. The preliminary peace of Versailles followed on 26 February 1871 and the Treaty of Frankfurt on 10 May of the same year. The legend still names him only King of Prussia, because the thaler remained a Prussian coin.

The piece was struck at the Berlin mint in an issue of 880,000. It belongs to the Vereinsthaler, the common thaler of the German states that ran from 1821 to 1873. Prussia had already issued a first Siegesthaler in 1866, that time for the victory over Austria. The earlier one carries the crowned eagle on the reverse, this second one the seated Borussia.

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