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1 Groschen - Christian II, John George I and August
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1601-1605 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen = 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Between 1601 and 1605, the three ruling Albertinian brothers — Christian II, John George I, and August — jointly administered Saxony under a co-regency arrangement following the death of their father, Christian I, in 1591. August, the youngest, died in 1615 before ever ruling alone; John George I would go on to navigate Saxony through the catastrophic opening decades of the Thirty Years' War. The triple-portrait groschen issues from this co-regency are among the more administratively complex of all Saxon electoral coinages, reflecting a dynastic compromise rather than any standard succession.