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1/2 Thaler - John George I Death
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1656 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Elector John George I facing slightly to the right, with a sword visible over the right shoulder. The date rendered in Roman numerals (MDCLVI) is distributed in the legend encircling the effigy. The portrait is executed in the high-relief baroque style typical of mid-seventeenth-century Saxon coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEO / CAESARI IM / PERIOQ RO FID / CONST MAGNANIM / POST MULTRIUMP / PAC PUBL REST ET IN / HOC QUOD SUI SI / MIL POST RELINQU / FELICISS PATER / PATRIAE BEA / TE MOR |
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John George I died in October 1656 after a reign of over four decades — long enough to see Saxony through the catastrophic Thirty Years' War, during which his shifting alliances between the Habsburg Emperor and the Swedish crown left the electorate economically and demographically devastated. These memorial halves were struck at Dresden in the immediate aftermath of his death, a standard practice among the Albertinian Wettin rulers for commemorating electoral succession.
Cl/Kahnt 353 is among the more frequently encountered of the John George I death series, though attrition from the period's brutal coin melting practices keeps genuinely sharp survivors scarce.