Live auction - fwo_666364 - 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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Estimate :	800 €
Price :	1 810 €
Maximum bid :	2 000 €
End of the sale :	15 June 2021 18:45:30
bidders :	7 bidders

Type : 1 Ducat (Sophiendukat)

Date: 1616

Mint name / Town : Dresde

Quantity minted : -

Metal : gold

Diameter : 22 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,44 g.

Edge : lisse

Coments on the condition:

Superbe exemplaire frappé sur un flan large et très légèrement voilé. De fines rayures dans les champs. Exemplaire très agréable

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.17/126 - UNWC5

Obverse

Obverse legend : WOL DEM DER FREUD AN SEIN KINDERN 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

Ce ducat très populaire a été frappé par l’électeur Jean Georges Ier en l’honneur de sa mère Sophie à l’occasion de Noël.
Notre exemplaire présente la légende d’avers AN SEIN KINDERN ERLEBT, les refrappes, elles, sont reconnaissables par la légende d’avers qui finit par AN SEIN KIND ERLEBT
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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.