Duitsland - Hessen-Darmstadt Lodewijk III, vereinstaler 1862 VF

Grand Duchy of Hesse, union thaler (Vereinsthaler), 1862, Darmstadt mint, Louis III, silver.

Obverse: head of Grand Duke Louis III facing left. Legend: LUDWIG III GROSHERZOG VON HESSEN (translated: Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse).

Reverse: the crowned Hessian coat of arms supported by two lions. Legend: EIN VEREINSTHALER * XXX EIN PFUND FEIN 1862 (translated: One union thaler, thirty to one pound of fine silver, 1862).

Edge: * MÜNZVERTRAG VOM 24 JANUAR 1857 (translated: Coinage treaty of 24 January 1857).

References: KM# 338, AKS# 120, Thun# 200, Davenport# 707.

Louis III became Grand Duke of Hesse during the March Revolution of 1848. In the year of this coin, on 25 May 1862, his wife Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria, a daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, died in Darmstadt. They had been married since 26 December 1833. Their marriage remained childless, and in 1868 he married Magdalene Appel morganatically, who received the title Baroness of Hochstädten.

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