1 Groschen - Christian II, John George I and August

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.