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1 Ducat - Anthony
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1829-1836 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1125, Fr#2894, Jaeg 6, FHI#167, AKS#63 |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Anton of Saxony, rendered with fine curly hair and naturalistic portrait detail. The bust is truncated at the shoulder and positioned centrally within a beaded border. A circular legend in Latin reads ANTON V.G.G. KOENIG VON SACHSEN, running from lower left to upper right around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Anthony of Saxony came to the throne in 1827 at the age of seventy-one, having spent decades as heir presumptive while his brother Frederick Augustus I reigned. His rule coincided almost exactly with the revolutionary pressures of 1830 that forced constitutional concessions across the German states — Saxony included, where street unrest in Leipzig and Dresden compelled Anthony to accept a more liberal constitution in 1831 and appoint a reform ministry under Bernhard von Lindenau.
The ducats of his reign were struck at Dresden. Anthony died in 1836, closing one of the shortest and most politically turbulent reigns in the Albertinian line.