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APPENDIX V

to the pound of pure silver, .900 fine.

Thus the 30-thaler standard to take the place of the old 14-thaler standard, but the two to be treated as the same.

The thaler to be coinable as a convention thaler or Vereins thaler; thaler to be subdivided into 30 groschens, at 12 pfennige. Page 383

7-8. Divisional coin limited in tender to 1⁄6 thaler as before, and both minted on a 34 1⁄2-thaler standard.

  1. Gold commercial coins shall be coined under the names of "crown" and "half-crown," in the form and with the attribution of confederation coins, viz.—
  1. Crown, 1⁄50 of a pound of fine gold (.900 fine).

  2. Half-crown, 1⁄100 " "

These coins shall be the special gold coins of the country, and other gold pieces shall not henceforth be coined.

  1. The silver value of the gold coinage shall be entirely
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