fwo_850217 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS Thaler 1816
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 180.00 €
Type : Thaler
Date: 1816
Quantity minted : 481358
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 40 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,97 g.
Edge : décorée
Coments on the condition:
Légères traces de nettoyage, quelques rayures au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRID . AVGVST . D . G . REX SAXONIÆ.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Frédéric-Auguste de Saxe.
Obverse translation : (Frédéric-Auguste par la grâce de Dieu roi de Saxe).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ZEHN EINE FEINE MARK . 1816.
Reverse description : écu entre deux palmes surmonté d’une couronne.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS
(11/12/1806-5/05/1827)
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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