1 Thaler Electorate of Bavaria (1623 - 1806) Silver



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1802, Electorate of Bavaria, Maximilian IV. Large Silver Thaler Coin.

Mint Year: 1802 Mint Place: Munich Denomination: Thaler State: Bavaria (German State) Reference: Davenport 1975, KM-644. Weight: 27.85gm Diameter: 42mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Bust of Maximilian I right, as Prince-Elector (Maximilian IV) of Bavaria. Legend: D.G.MAX.IOS.C.P.R.V.B.D.S.R.I.A.&.EL.D.I.C.&.M.

Reverse: Ducal crown ontop of oval shield with Bavarian arms within, flanked by sprays. Legend: IN DEO ET POPULO 1802

Maximilian I (also known as Maximilian Joseph) (May 27, 1756 – October 13, 1825) was prince-elector of Bavaria (as Maximilian IV Joseph) from 1799 to 1805, king of Bavaria (as Maximilian I) from 1806 to 1825.

Maximilian was the son of the count palatine Frederick Michael of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and Maria Francisca of Sulzbach, and was born at Schwetzingen – between Heidelberg and Mannheim.

He was carefully educated under the supervision of his uncle, Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken, became Count of Rappoltstein in 1776 and took service in 1777 as a colonel in the French army and rose rapidly to the rank of major-general. From 1782 to 1789 he was stationed at Strasbourg, but at the outbreak of the French Revolution he exchanged the French for the Austrian service, taking part in the opening campaigns of the revolutionary wars.

On April 1, 1795 he succeeded his brother, Charles II, as duke of Zweibrücken, and on February 16, 1799 became Elector of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Arch-Steward of the Empire, and Duke of Berg on the extinction of the Sulzbach line with the death of the elector Charles Theodore.

The sympathy with France and with French ideas of enlightenment which characterized his reign was at once manifested. In the newly organized ministry Count Max Josef von Montgelas, who, after falling into disfavour with Charles Theodore, had acted for a time as Maximilian Joseph’s private secretary, was the most potent influence, an influence wholly “enlightened” and French. Agriculture and commerce were fostered, the laws were ameliorated, a new criminal code drawn up, taxes and imposts equalized without regard to traditional privileges, while a number of religious houses were suppressed and their revenues used for educational and other useful purposes. He closed the University of Ingolstadt in May 1800 and moved it to Landshut.

In foreign politics Maximilian Joseph’s attitude was from the German point of view less commendable. With the growing sentiment of German nationality he had from first to last no sympathy, and his attitude throughout was dictated by wholly dynastic, or at least Bavarian, considerations. Until 1816 he was the most faithful of Napoleon’s German allies, the relation being cemented by the marriage of his eldest daughter to Eugène de Beauharnais. His reward came with the Treaty of Pressburg (December 26, 1805), by the terms of which he was to receive the royal title and important territorial acquisitions in Swabia and Franconia to round off his kingdom. He assumed the title of king on January 1, 1806. On March 15 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon.

The new king of Bavaria was the most important of the princes belonging to the Confederation of the Rhine, and remained Napoleon’s ally until the eve of the Battle of Leipzig, when by the Treaty of Ried (October 8, 1816) he made the guarantee of the integrity of his kingdom the price of his joining the Allies.

By the first Treaty of Paris (June 3, 1814), however, he ceded Tyrol to Austria in exchange for the former Grand Duchy of Würzburg. At the Congress of Vienna, which he attended in person, Maximilian had to make further concessions to Austria, ceding Salzburg and the quarters of the Inn and Hausruck in return for the western part of the old Palatinate. The king fought hard to maintain the contiguity of the Bavarian territories as guaranteed at Ried but the most he could obtain was an assurance from Metternich in the matter of the Baden succession, in which he was also doomed to be disappointed.

At Vienna and afterwards Maximilian sturdily opposed any reconstitution of Germany which should endanger the independence of Bavaria, and it was his insistence on the principle of full sovereignty being left to the German reigning princes that largely contributed to the loose and weak organization of the new German Confederation. The Federal Act of the Vienna Congress was proclaimed in Bavaria, not as a law but as an international treaty. It was partly to secure popular support in his resistance to any interference of the federal diet in the internal affairs of Bavaria, partly to give unity to his somewhat heterogeneous territories, that Maximilian on May 26, 1818 granted a liberal constitution to his people. Montgelas, who had opposed this concession, had fallen in the previous year, and Maximilian had also reversed his ecclesiastical policy, signing on October 24, 1817 a concordat with Rome by which the powers of the clergy, largely curtailed under Montgelas’s administration, were restored. The new parliament proved to be more independent than he had anticipated and in 1819 Maximilian resorted to appealing to the powers against his own creation; but his Bavarian “particularism” and his genuine popular sympathies prevented him from allowing the Carlsbad Decrees to be strictly enforced within his dominions. The suspects arrested by order of the Mainz Commission he was accustomed to examine himself, with the result that in many cases the whole proceedings were quashed, and in not a few the accused dismissed with a present of money.

Maximilian died at Nymphenburg Palace, near Munich, on October 13, 1825 and was succeeded by his son Ludwig I. Maximilian is buried in the crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich.


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Bayern. Maximilian IV. Joseph 1799-1805. Taler 1800. AKS 4. Leicht justiert, kleine Kratzer, sehr schön

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Bayern, Maximilian IV. JosephTaler 1801. AKS 4, Thun 62, Kahnt 50, Davenport 540. Leicht justiert, sehr schön

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CoinWorldTV 1802, Electorate of Bavaria, Maximilian IV. Large Silver Thaler Coin. VF+ Mint Year: 1802 Mint Place: Munich Denomination: Thaler State: Bavaria (German State) Reference: Davenport 1975, KM-644. R! Condition: Dark deposits, weight-adjusting marks in reverse, otherwise ...

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CoinWorldTV 1801, Kingdomf of Bavaria, Maximilian IV. Large Silver Thaler Coin. XF+ Mint Year: 1801 Mint Place: Munich Denomination: Thaler State: Bavaria (German State) Reference: Davenport 1975, KM-644. R! Condition: Weight-adjusting marks in reverse, numerous tiny circulation m ...

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CoinWorldTV 1799, Bavaria, Charles Theodore. Large Silver Thaler Coin. Scarce Type! Mint Year: 1799 Mint Place: Munich Condition: A nice VF/aXF! Denomination: Silver Thaler Reference: Davenport 1975, KM-644. R! Weight: 27.72gm Diameter: 42mm Material: Silver Obverse: Bust of Char ...

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Bavaria. Maximilian I Joseph Taler 1800, KM#313, about VF, scarcer type.

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GERMANY-BAVARIA 1817 Thaler Maximilian Silver Crown

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GERMANY-BAVARIA 1864 Maximilian 1 Thaler Silver VF-XF

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