1 Groschen - Christian II, John George I and August

The joint-reign coinage of Saxony from this period reflects an unusual constitutional arrangement: Christian II was a minor when his father Christian I died in 1591, placing his uncles John George I and August in a formal regency. All three names appear on the coinage not as co-rulers in the conventional sense but as a legal expression of that guardianship — the electoral dignity held in trust until Christian II came of age in 1601.

Saxony's groschen output in the 1590s was substantial, driven by the continued productivity of the Erzgebirge silver mines, though yields were beginning the long decline that would reshape Saxon monetary policy in the following century.