ObverseThe Two Kings
+FRIEDRICH·I·1701· WILHELM·II·1901·
- Design
- The conjoined busts of Frederick I and William II facing left.
- Legend
- +FRIEDRICH·I·1701· WILHELM·II·1901· (Frederick I 1701, William II 1901).
Germany · 1901 · 2 marks200th anniversary of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1901)
This 2 mark coin in 900 thousandths silver, struck in 1901 in Berlin, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Kingdom of Prussia. On 18 January 1701, in Königsberg, Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowned himself the first “King in Prussia” as Frederick I, with the agreement of Emperor Leopold I, who obtained Prussian troops in return for the War of the Spanish Succession. The obverse brings together the busts of Frederick I and his distant successor William II, King of Prussia and German Emperor. The reverse bears the crowned imperial eagle and the legend DEUTSCHES REICH 1901. The coin was struck in 2,600,000 pieces at the Berlin Mint.
Actual size compared with the 2 € and 1 € coins. Thickness: 2 mm.
1 pfennig1903 · 17.5 mm
½ mark1906 · 20 mm
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