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1906, Kingdom of Bavaria. Matte-Proof Silver Shooting Thaler Medal. 29.8gm!

Mint Year: 1906
Mint Place: Munich
Medallist: M. Dasio
Reference: Peltzer 1487.
Region: Bavaria, (German State)
Condition: A nicely struck matte-proof strike in uncirculated condition!
Denomination: Shooting Thaler Medal - 15th German Federal Shooting in Munich
Weight: 29.85gm
Diameter: 38mm
Material: Silver

Obverse: Crowned eagle of the German Empire standing with spread wings. Legend and desinger's signature in fields.
Legend: ANNO / DO / MI / NI / 1906

Reverse: Dancing figure, holding target with a cetral heart and arrow with a thread on it. Wreath border above.
Legend: .X.V. / DEVTSCH . / BVNDES-/SCHIESSEN / . MVENCHEN . /

For your consderation beautiful silver shooting thaler medal issuend on the 15th German Federal Shoot, which was held in Munnich during 1906.

Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (German: Prinzregent Luitpold Karl Joseph Wilhelm Ludwig von Bayern) (12 March 1821 – 12 December 1912), was the de facto ruler of Bavaria from 1886 to 1912, due to the incapacity of his nephews, King Ludwig II and King Otto.

On 10 June 1886, Luitpold's nephew King Ludwig II was declared mentally incompetent and Luitpold was named Regent. Luitpold's part is still controversial. Following Ludwig II's mysterious death a few days later, his brother Otto assumed the throne. However, Otto was likewise mentally incapable of reigning, and Luitpold continued to serve as regent. Prince Luitpold was even accused by some people of the murder of his nephew, but soon the decent and affable prince became one of Bavaria's most popular rulers. One of his first actions (on 1 August 1886) was to open several of the palaces of Ludwig II to the public.

During the regency of Prince-Regent Luitpold relations between Bavarians and Prussians remained cold with Bavarians remembering the anti-Catholic agenda of Bismarck's Kulturkampf as well as Prussia's strategic dominance over the empire. With the Centre politician Georg von Hertling the prince regent appointed a representative of the Landtag's majority as minister president for the first time ever.

Luitpold continued to serve as regent until 1912, when he contracted bronchitis and died in Munich. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Ludwig. He is buried in the crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich.

The Prinzregentenzeit ("prince's regent's time"), as the regency of Luitpold is often called, was due to the political passiveness of Luitpold an era of the gradual transfer of Bavarian interests behind those of the German empire. In connection with the unhappy end of the preceding rule of King Ludwig II this break in the Bavarian monarchy looked even stronger. Finally, the constitutional amendment of 1913 brought the determining break in the continuity of the king's rule in the opinion of historians, particularly as this change had been granted by the Landtag as a House of Representatives and meant therefore indirectly the first step from constitutional to the parliamentary monarchy. Today the connection of these two developments is regarded as a main cause for the unspectacular end of the Bavarian kingdom without opposition in the course of the November revolution of 1918. However the course of his 26-year regency Luitpold knew to overcome, by modesty, ability and popularity, the initial uneasiness of his subjects. These prince's regent's years were transfigured, finally – above all in the retrospect – to a golden age of Bavaria, even if one mourned the "fairy tale king" Ludwig II furthermore what happens in a folkloric-nostalgic manner till this day.