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1 Spitzgroschen - Ernest, Albert and William III
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1475-1478 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | E W A D ° G DVX SAX TV L... |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Spitzgroschen type was a product of the joint rule forced on Saxony by the dynastic convention of the House of Wettin, which resisted partition even as its territories sprawled across central Germany. Ernest, Albert, and William III ruled collectively following the Chemnitz agreement, a politically awkward arrangement that ended only with William's death in 1482 and the eventual Partition of Leipzig in 1485 — which split the Wettin lands permanently into Ernestine and Albertinian lines.
The Meissen mint attribution under Krug places this piece in one of the most productive silver-striking operations in late medieval Germany, fed directly by the Erzgebirge mining boom then accelerating across the Saxon uplands.