Better 90 Percent German Silver

All wonderful additions to your collection.

I've always missed my own Germanic States collection. Sold for my US fixation.

I suggest the coin with a horseman and foot soldiers commemorates the 1813 Leipzig campaign of German states, with Prussia as a leader, against France.

The text across the top translates as "The King called and everyone came". ( via google, as my German is very limited ). The date at the bottom is 17/3/13 ( i.e. 1813 ), which is the day Frederick William III of Prussia declared war on France. Text at the bottom translates as " with God for King and Fatherland ".


The central horseman wears a Prussian tunic matching the style seen in portraits of Frederick William. The first foot soldier to his right is in the uniform of a regular army hussar ( light cavalryman ). The two foot soldiers to the left are landwehr cavalry. The landwehr were a kind of militia, or reserve, which fought alongside the regulars. They are wearing long jackets known as litewkas, which were regularly worn by landwehr as regular uniforms were mostly not available. I identify them as cavalry rather than infantry by the shoulder belts and the lance pennon. Often landwehr cavalry carried a lance even though they were not specialist lancers. By depicting these troops, I suggest the artist is aiming to show popular support by ordinary people, who supplied recruits for the landwehr.

Sorry I cannot give any information about the actual coins.