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1 Pfennig - Frederick August II
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1841-1854 |
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| Weight | 1.63 g |
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| Obverse lettering | K.S. S.M. (Translation: königlich sächsische Scheide-Münze) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick August II ascended the Saxon throne in 1836 as a constitutional monarch, the 1831 constitution having already stripped the crown of much of its absolute authority. These small copper pfennigs were the workhorses of everyday commerce in a kingdom still navigating the economic disruptions of early industrialization, when wage labor in the Erzgebirge textile and mining districts meant pfennig-level transactions were genuinely common.
KM#1155 spans a fourteen-year run cut short by Frederick August's death in 1854 — thrown from a carriage in the Austrian Tyrol while traveling.