1849 Hanover

[dalehall]

I got this along with about a dozen 18th and 19th German States Coins.  Never really collected this area so i don't know anything about it.  Interesting...what do the Initials stand for?

Dale

[constanius]

I got this along with about a dozen 18th and 19th German States Coins.  Never really collected this area so i don't know anything about it.  Interesting...what do the Initials stand for?

Dale

E.A.R. For Ernest Augustus Rex 1838-51

[translateltd]

Ernst August was the Duke of Cumberland, Queen Victoria's Uncle Ernst, who got himself dispatched to Hanover when she wasn't allowed to take the throne there - he is commemorated in the famous "To Hanover" medalets produced in Britain in and around 1837.

[chrisild]

Ah, a familiar topic.
http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,6355.msg40268.html#msg40268

Christian

[dalehall]

Yeah, I remember the topics...just didn't make the connection 
Dale

Ah, a familiar topic.
http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,6355.msg40268.html#msg40268

Christian

[Figleaf]

The coins of the German States from this period are hard to understand. In the period 1821-1857, a large number of coinage treaties coalesced the situation around two coins:

• The Prussian Thaler of 30 groschen, each worth 12 pfennig, so 360 pfennig in a Thaler
• The Austrian Gulden of 20 Silbergroschen of 5 kreuzer

Within the Prussian Thaler area, there were several different systems, e.g. Mecklenburg (1 Thaler = 48 Schilling of 12 Pfenning), Oldenburg (1 Thaler = 30 Groschen of 12 Schwaren) ans Sachsen (1 Thaler = 30 Neugroschen of 10 Pfennig). Hannover was hemmed in between two parts of Prussia. It tried to remain independent by not acceding to any monetary convention and applying the Prussian system voluntarily from 1834. In 1854, Hannover changed over to the Saxonian system. Therefore, your coin is among the last pfennigs of 1/360 Thaler. From 1854 to 1866, when Hannover was added to Prussia, the pfennig was 1/300th Thaler.

Peter