Live auction - fwo_992168 - GERMANY - ELECTORATE OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS III Thaler 1788 Dresde
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 86 € |
| Maximum bid : | 90 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 April 2025 18:58:36 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Thaler
Date: 1788
Mint name / Town : Dresde
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 39,95 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,04 g.
Edge : décorée
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan large et régulier et à l’aspect homogène
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection d’un descendant du Comte Jacques Defermon (1752-1831) ministre d'État et directeur des finances de 1808 à 1815
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRID AUGUST. D.G. SAX. ELECTOR.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Frédéric Auguste III.
Reverse
Reverse legend : X. EINE - MARCK F. // IEC // 1788.
Reverse description : écu couronné entre deux rameaux.
Historical background
GERMANY - ELECTORATE OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS III
(17/12/1763-20/12/1806)
Frédéric-Auguste (23/12/1750-5/05/1827) is the son of Frédéric-Christian (1722-1763), short-lived elector of Saxony in 1763 and Marie-Antoinette of Bavaria. He succeeded his father under the regency of François-Xavier, his uncle (1763-1768). He is the last Elector of Saxony and the first King of Saxony (1763-1806-1827). Faithful ally of Napoleon I, he received the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and lost part of his estates at the Treaty of Vienna in 1815. Died childless, his brother Antoine who succeeds him.
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