v35_0475 - GERMANY - SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I Thaler 1637 Leipzig

GERMANY - SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I Thaler 1637 Leipzig XF

MONNAIES 35 (2008)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 320.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 258.00 €

Type : Thaler

Date: 1637

Mint name / Town : Leipzig

Metal : silver

Diameter : 45,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 29,08 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce thaler est frappé sur un flan très large présentant un éclatement à 6 heures. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe

Catalogue references :

Dav.7601 - Gernotn° 845 p. 328 - KM/GC.p. 742

Obverse

Obverse legend : (GLOBE CRUCIGÈRE) IOHAN* GEORG* D: G* DVX SAX* IUL* CLIU* ET MONTI.

Obverse description : Buste cuirassé à droite de Jean Georges, tenant de la main gauche un heaume, de la droite une épée portée à l'épaule.

Obverse translation : (Jean Georges, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Saxe, Juliers, Clèves et...).

Reverse

Reverse legend : 37. SA. ROM. IMP. ARCHIM. ET ELE. 16..

Reverse description : Écu à multiples quartiers sommé de six heaumes coupant la légende en haut ; S-D de part et d’autre de l’écu.

Reverse translation : (du Saint-Empire romain, archimaréchal et électeur, 1633).

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.