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1 Thaler - August
| Uitgever | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Jaar | 1556-1559 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Central shield of electoral Saxony set within a twelve-fold heraldic achievement, the date divided by the shield in the field. Three ornate helmets with crests are displayed above the arms. The reverse legend continues the regnal titles of the Elector in Latin, encircling the entire composition. |
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August inherited the Saxon electorate in 1553 under complicated circumstances — his brother Moritz had seized the electoral dignity from the Ernestine branch through military force during the Schmalkaldic War, and August consolidated that gain carefully, cultivating a reputation for fiscal competence that earned him the nickname "Vater August" among contemporaries. The thalers struck across this narrow three-year window reflect his early minting activity before the major coinage reforms he would later impose on Saxony's extraordinarily productive silver economy, fed directly by the Erzgebirge mines.
The Dav GT I reference places this within the broader German Thaler sequence, but Schnee#708 distinguishes the specific die groupings across 1556–1559 with enough granularity to reward close examination of the reverse legends for date placement variants.