1⁄24 Thaler - John George IV

John George IV ruled Saxony for just three years before dying of smallpox in 1694 — almost certainly contracted from his mistress Magdalena Sibylla of Neidschutz, who had died of the same disease weeks earlier. His brief reign was administratively thin, and the small-denomination coinage issued under his name reflects the fragmented monetary geography of the Holy Roman Empire, where the Thaler and its fractions circulated alongside dozens of competing regional issues.