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1 Pfennig - Frederick August I
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1811-1825 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The quartered Royal Saxon arms, displaying the distinctive barry and rautenkranz (diamond-strewn) divisions of the House of Wettin, are set within a circular shield at the centre of the design. The shield is flanked by foliate or palm branches and surmounted by a large royal crown, all rendered in low relief against a plain field. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Frederick August I had backed Napoleon, and Saxony paid dearly for it — stripped of roughly half its territory at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The kingdom's coinage continued uninterrupted through that humiliation, with small copper issues like this one sustaining everyday commerce in what remained of the truncated state. The KM#1070 type spans an unusually long production window for a minor denomination, suggesting repeated restriking from refreshed dies rather than continuous annual output.