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1 Ducat - Frederick Augustus I
| Issuer | Electorate of Saxony (Albertinian Line) (German States) |
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| Year | 1706 |
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| Weight | 3.44 g |
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| Obverse description | Two doves facing each other in profile, standing upon a ground line at center, their wings slightly raised in a naturalistic pose. The upper field bears the German legend WER SICH AUFS KUSSEN LEGT in an arc, while the lower field contains the continuation ANFANG BE-DENCKE in two lines below the ground line. The design is rendered in fine relief against a plain, unadorned field, conveying an emblematic or moralistic device characteristic of the early 18th-century Saxon court tradition. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A cockerel mounting a hen at center, both birds depicted in vigorous relief upon a ground line, capturing a naturalistic courtship scene used as an emblematic motif. The circular legend DER LEGT SICH AUCH AUFS BETTE runs around the upper periphery, while the exergual inscription DAS ENDE appears in the lower field below the ground line. The composition forms a deliberate narrative counterpart to the obverse, the two sides together conveying a moralizing aphorism in the emblematic tradition common to Saxon ducats of the period. |
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