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1 Conventionsthaler - Frederick August II Ausbeute
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1757 |
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| Value | 4⁄3 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Friedrich August II (as Elector of Saxony) facing right, wearing a full-bottomed curled periwig, lace cravat, and armored pauldron with decorative mantle. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy within a finely reeded border. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the Baroque tradition. |
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| Mintage | 1757 IDB |
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The "Ausbeute" designation marks this as a mining-yield thaler — struck specifically from silver extracted at the Erzgebirge mines, a distinction that carried both economic and symbolic weight for the Saxon court. 1757 places this coin squarely in the catastrophic opening phase of the Seven Years' War for Saxony: Frederick the Great had invaded and occupied the Electorate in late 1756, effectively ending Saxon monetary autonomy and forcing Elector Frederick August II to govern in exile from Warsaw as King of Poland.
That this Ausbeute issue was struck at all in 1757 speaks to the continued, if disrupted, operation of the Saxon mining administration under occupation pressure.