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1/4 Thaler - John George I
| Issuer | Electorate of Saxony (Albertinian Line) |
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| Year | 1623-1627 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1493-1805) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John George I issued this fractional thaler during the opening years of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that would eventually devastate Saxony's towns and drain its treasury for decades. His position was characteristically awkward: a Lutheran elector who initially refused to join the Protestant Union, attempting to balance confessional loyalty against Habsburg political pressure while the war burned through the German states around him.
The 1623–1627 dating places production across the period of the Danish intervention's buildup, when silver output from the Erzgebirge mines was still relatively robust — a circumstance that would not last.