Frederick the Great Hercule or Confucius

or Confucius

View of the Bank of England

Showing figures making repairs to ships and boats or handling cargo

Above are English and Union flags with laurels at the top of the oval surround

vignettes and coats of arms

Frederick the Great Hercule or ConfuciusFrederick the Great, King of Prussia, 18th century (1913). Frederick II (1712 1786) ruled Prussia from 1740. He enlarged Prussian territory by acquiring Silesia from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession and from the partiton of Poland. He was regarded as an enlightened monarch, promoting religious tolerance, modernising the bureaucracy and civil service and patronising the work of writers and philosophers such as Voltaire and Kant. From A