1991 SILVER GERMANY PROOF INTERNMENT OF FREDERICK THE GREAT AT SANSSOUCI BOX

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RARE
HIGH RELIEF SILVER 1 OZ PROOF 999 FINE
COMMEMORATIVE HONORING
THE INTERNMENT OF
FREDERICK II "THE GREAT"
AT HIS PALACE OF SANSSOUCI
205 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
OBV:
HIGH RELIEF UNIFORMED BUST OF FREDERICK THE GREAT LEFT WEARING COCKED HAT; LIFE DATES RIGHT.
REV:
AERIAL VIEW OF PALACE AND GARDENS OF SANSSOUCI, FINENESS UNDER IMAGE; GERMAN LEGEND, "HEIMKEHR NACH SANSSOUCI / 205. TODESTAG (RETURN TO SANSSOUCI / 205 DAY OF DEATH)"; DATE "12.AUGUST 1991" AT BOTTOM.
FREDERICK II
(1712 –1786) WAS KING OF
PRUSSIA
FROM 1740 UNTIL 1786, THE LONGEST REIGN OF ANY
HOHENZOLLERN
KING. HIS MOST SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDED HIS REORGANIZATION OF
PRUSSIAN ARMIES
BUREAUCRACY AND CIVIL SERVICE
, HIS PATRONAGE OF THE ARTS AND
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
IN PRUSSIA, AND HIS MILITARY VICTORIES, ESPECIALLY HIS FINAL SUCCESS AGAINST GREAT ODDS IN THE
SEVEN YEARS' WAR
.
CONSIDERING HIMSELF "THE FIRST SERVANT OF THE STATE", FREDERICK WAS A PROPONENT OF
ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM
. DURING HIS REIGN PRUSSIA HAD GREATLY INCREASED ITS TERRITORIES AND BECAME A LEADING MILITARY POWER IN EUROPE UNDER HIS RULE. HE BECAME KNOWN AS
FREDERICK THE GREAT
(
FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE
) AND WAS AFFECTIONATELY NICKNAMED
DER ALTE
FRITZ
("OLD
FRITZ
") BY THE PRUSSIAN AND LATER BY ALL GERMAN PEOPLE.
SANSSOUCI
IS THE SUMMER PALACE OF
FREDERICK THE GREAT
, BUILT FOR HIM IN
POTSDAM
, NEAR
BERLIN
, FROM 1745-1747
. IT IS OFTEN CALLED THE GERMAN
VERSAILLES
, BUT IT IS IN THE MORE INTIMATE
ROCOCO
STYLE, AND FAR SMALLER THAN ITS
FRENCH BAROQUE
COUNTERPART.
THE TOMB OF FREDERICK THE GREAT
WAS A SUBJECT TO WHICH
HE
GAVE A GREAT DEAL OF THOUGHT.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
DIED ON AUGUST 17, 1786 IN AN ARMCHAIR OF HIS STUDY IN
SANSSOUCI
. HE WISHED TO BE BURIED IN A
TOMB
NEXT TO HIS SMALL VINYARD HOUSE, AND NEAR HIS FAVOURITE DOGS.
HE WROTE, “I HAVE LIVED AS A PHILOSOPHER AND WISH TO BE BURIED AS SUCH, WITHOUT CIRCUMSTANCE, WITHOUT SOLEMN POMP, WITHOUT SPLENDOUR. I WANT TO BE NEITHER OPENED NOR EMBALMED. BURY ME IN SANSSOUCI AT THE LEVEL OF THE TERRACES IN A TOMB WHICH I HAVE HAD PREPARED FOR MYSELF... SHOULD I DIE IN TIME OF WAR OR WHILST ON A JOURNEY, I SHOULD BE BURIED IN THE FIRST CONVENIENT PLACE AND BROUGHT TO SANSSOUCI IN THE WINTER.”
HIS NEPHEW FREDERICK WILLIAM II, WHO SUCCEDED HIM, DID NOT OBEY HIS UNCLE’S WISHES, AND HAD HIM BURIED IN THE
POTSDAM GARRISON CHURCH
ALONGSIDE HIS FATHER.
AFTER THE
REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY
, THE FINAL WISH OF FREDERICK THE GREAT WAS FULFILLED. ON AUGUST 17, 1991, THE 205TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH, THE
SARCOPHAGUS
WITH THE MORTAL REMAINS OF THE KING WAS LAID OUT IN THE FORECOURT OF SANSSOUCI PALACE, ESCORTED BY AN ARMY GUARD OF HONOR. THE BURIAL TOOK PLACE THAT NIGHT IN THE TOMB FREDERICK HAD PLANNED FOR THE PURPOSE SINCE 1744, ON THE HIGHEST TERRACE OF VINEYARDS.
"QUAND JE SERAI LÀ, JE SERAI SANS SOUCI (ONCE I AM THERE, I SHALL BE CAREFREE)” FREDERICK THE GREAT SAID IN 1744.
CONTAINS 31.1 GRAMS OF 999 FINE SILVER (1 OZ ACTUAL SILVER WEIGHT)
42 MM IN DIAMETER
COMES IN ORIGINAL CAPSULE AND BOX
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