Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Thaler - Frederick August I Marriage
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1719 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Thaler |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Nine-line Latin inscription occupying the entire field, commemorating the signing of the marriage contract between the Prince of Poland and Elector of Saxony and the Princess of Hungary, Bohemia, and Archduchess of Austria, concluded at Vienna. The text is arranged in centered lines and concludes with the date A·MDCCXIX and the mintmaster's initials IGS in the lower field. The coin is struck within a toothed inner border with a suspension loop at the top, giving it the character of both a struck thaler and a presentation piece. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | INDISSOLVBILITER |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
This thaler commemorates the 1719 Dresden celebrations surrounding the marriage of Frederick Augustus II (Electoral Prince of Saxony) to Maria Josepha, Archduchess of Austria — festivities that Augustus I bankrolled on a scale designed to announce Saxon power to every court in Europe. The Dresden wedding lasted weeks and consumed a sum that historians have compared unfavorably to the state's annual military budget.
The Schnee reference places this among a cluster of Saxon commemorative talers from that single celebratory year, several sharing obverse dies.