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1⁄24 Thaler - Frederick August I
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1824-1827 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1094, AKS#44 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick August I had ruled Saxony since 1806, but the kingdom emerged from the Napoleonic period badly truncated — forced by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to cede roughly half its territory to Prussia as punishment for remaining loyal to Napoleon too long. The small-denomination billon issues of his final years reflect a state recalibrating its monetary system after that territorial and economic shock.
The 1⁄24 Thaler denomination, a subdivision rooted in the old Reichsthaler reckoning, was already an anachronism by the 1820s as German states pushed toward rationalized coinage systems that would eventually produce the Vereinsthaler of 1857.