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1⁄12 Talara - Fryderyk Christian as Polish Prince Leipzig mint
| Issuer | Electorate of Saxony |
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| Year | 1763 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the elaborately quartered arms of Saxony and Poland-Lithuania, surmounted by an electoral crown. The shield displays the traditional Saxon barry with a central escutcheon bearing the Rautenkranz, flanked by the Polish eagle and Lithuanian Pogon quarters, supported by two rampant lions. A circular Latin legend surrounds the achievement, with the mintmaster's initials EDC appearing in the lower exergue beneath the shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID. CHRISTIAN. D. G. PR. R. POL. & LIT. SAX. EDC |
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Fryderyk Christian ruled as Elector of Saxony for precisely 74 days before dying of smallpox in December 1763, making any coinage struck in his name exceptionally short-lived by circumstance. This piece was issued under his title as Polish Prince — a designation still carried by Saxon electors following Augustus III's dual crown — even as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had by this point grown effectively ungovernable and the title itself largely ceremonial.
1763 also marks the end of the Seven Years' War, during which Prussian occupation had severely disrupted Saxon minting operations. Leipzig resumed output that year, and this fractional silver belongs to the immediate postwar restabilization of Saxon coinage.