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1 Ducat - Frederick August I
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1813-1822 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The crowned oval arms of Saxony — barry of ten or and sable with a crancelin in bend — displayed at center, flanked by two crossed palm or laurel branches tied at the base. The date is divided on either side of the crown above the shield, and the mintmaster's initials I.G.S. appear in the exergue below. |
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Frederick Augustus I spent much of this period a prisoner of the Napoleonic wars — literally. Captured by Prussia after Saxony backed Napoleon at Jena, he was held under house arrest in Berlin and Königsberg from 1806 until 1807. His kingdom fared worse at Vienna in 1815, losing roughly half its territory to Prussia as punishment for the same loyalty. That these ducats continued to be struck through such sustained territorial and political disruption says something about the resilience of Saxon mint operations at Muldenhütten and Dresden.