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NUREMBERG: Friedrich Wilhelm III, 1770-1840, AE medal / silvered jeton (13.17g), 1817, PCGS graded S

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NUREMBERG: Friedrich Wilhelm III, 1770-1840, AE medal / silvered jeton (13.17g), 1817, PCGS graded S
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NUREMBERG: Friedrich Wilhelm III, 1770-1840, AE medal / silvered jeton (13.17g), 1817, Brettauer-1995, Erlanger-4, 35mm, silvered brass jeton by Christian Stettner "the Famine after the Napoleonic Wars", draped mother with 2 children with O GIEB MIR - BROD NICH HUNGERT around and IETTON in exergue // balance scales with 1MAS BIR / 8 ½ KR between the pans, 1/3L and 12.KR below the pans, and ERZAGET NICHT GOTT - LEBETNOCH around with 1816 U 1817 in exergue, plain edge, PCGS graded Specimen 63. The year 1816 is known as "the Year Without a Summer" because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease. Europe, still recuperating from the Napoleonic Wars, suffered from food shortages. The impoverished especially suffered during this time. Low temperatures and heavy rains resulted in failed harvests in Great Britain and Ireland. Families in Wales traveled long distances begging for food. Famine was prevalent in north and southwest Ireland, following the failure of wheat, oat, and potato harvests. In Germany, the crisis was severe. Food prices rose sharply throughout Europe. With the cause of the problems unknown, hungry people demonstrated in front of grain markets and bakeries. Later riots, arson, and looting took place in many European cities. On some occasions, rioters carried flags reading "Bread or Blood". Though riots were common during times of hunger, the food riots of 1816 and 1817 were the highest levels of violence since the French Revolution. It was the worst famine of 19th-century mainland Europe. Between 1816 and 1819 major typhus epidemics occurred in parts of Europe, including Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, and Scotland, precipitated by malnourishment and famine caused by the "Year Without a Summer". More than 65,000 people died as the disease spread out of Ireland and onwards to Britain.