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1 Dreier - Johann Friedrich and Georg
| Issuer | Saxony (Ernestinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1534-1535 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the Ducal Saxon arms — a quartered shield featuring the barry of horizontal stripes of Saxony surmounted by the crowned rampant lion of Thuringia — are depicted in the field. The circumscribed Latin legend records the abbreviated titles of Duke Georg of Saxony (Albertine line), with the mint mark T and the date 1534 incorporated into the legend. The hammered flan shows characteristic irregularity and slight flatness on some areas of the lettering. |
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| Mintage | 1534 T - - 1535 T - - |
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The Ernestinian line held the Saxon electorate until the Schmalkaldic War of 1546–47, when Johann Friedrich was captured at Mühlberg and forced to surrender both the electoral dignity and the bulk of Saxon territory to the Albertine branch. These coins predate that catastrophe by over a decade, struck during a period when the Ernestinian Wettins still commanded the most powerful Protestant principality in the Empire. The joint issue with Georg reflects the co-regency arrangements common among the Ernestinian holdings, where territorial division among heirs created overlapping authorities requiring shared coinage.