fwo_418942 - GERMANY - SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I 1 Ducat (Sophiendukat) 1616 Dresde

GERMANY - SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I 1 Ducat (Sophiendukat) 1616 Dresde AU

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Price : 650.00 €

Type : 1 Ducat (Sophiendukat)

Date: 1616

Mint name / Town : Dresde

Quantity minted : -

Metal : gold

Diameter : 23,20 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,42 g.

Edge : lisse

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.17/126 - UNWC5

Obverse

Obverse legend : WOL DEM DER FREUD AN SEIN KIND ERLEBT..

Obverse description : lettre CS entrelacée sous le chapeau ducal, épée et bâton.

Reverse

Reverse legend : HILF DV HEILIGE DREYFALTIGKEIT 1616..

Reverse description : lettres IHS, oeil radié et colombe.

Commentary

Il s’agit d’une refrappe du ducat de 1616 reconnaissable par la légende d’avers qui finit par AN SEIN KIND ERLEBT au lieu de AN SEIN KINDERN ERLEBT.
Ce ducat très populaire a été frappée par l’électeur Jean Georges Ier en l’honneur de sa mère Sophie à l’occasion de Noël.

Historical background

GERMANY - SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I

(1615-1656)

Jean-Georges I succeeded his brother Christian II in 1611, but with the title of august. He was initially an ally of Emperor Ferdinand II, then he married the Protestant party in 1631 to return on May 30, 1635, after the Peace of Prague, to the imperial party. This period of the Thirty Years' War was one of the most troubled in Saxony which was ravaged by the Imperials and the Swedes. In 1648, peace signed, Saxony obtained Lusatia. The duchy, considerably weakened, however lost its predominance over the Germanic Protestant powers to the benefit of Brandenburg. The will of John George I detached from Saxony the duchies of Saxe-Weissenfels, Saxe-Merseburg and Saxe-Zeitz. These duchies were not again united with Saxony until 1718 and 1746.