German States Baden 1 Kreuzer {1859-1871} 1S 

Ruler: Friedrich I

FEATURING
front: Crowned Baden Crest centre
Lettering: 
BADEN
SCHEIDE
MÜNZE

Coat of arms of Baden
2 griffins rampant holding a striped crowned shield

The Griffin is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature

The Grand Duchy of Baden (German: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest of German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.

It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subsequently split into different lines, which were unified in 1771. It then became the much-enlarged Grand Duchy of Baden through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803–06 and was a sovereign country until it joined the German Empire in 1871, remaining a Grand Duchy until 1918 when it became part of the Weimar Republic as the Republic of Baden. Baden was bordered to the north by the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt; to the west, along most of its length, by the River Rhine, which separated Baden from the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate and Alsace in modern France; to the south by Switzerland; and to the east by the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Bavaria.

Baden is today part of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, where one can still see the arms of Baden represented in the coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg, as a badge atop modern federal state's arms.

• quantity 1
• demonetized {no longer in circulation} polished Copper coin
• diameter: 21.7 mm
• weight: 4 g

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