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1 Thaler - John Frederick I and George
| Issuer | Saxony (Ernestinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1534-1535 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Johann Friedrich I facing right within a circle, the Elector holding a sword over his right shoulder. The encircling legend bears his titles in Latin, divided at four points by small shields of arms. The portrait is rendered in the characteristic Renaissance style of early Saxon thalers, with attention to facial detail and costume. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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John Frederick I and his brother George ruled jointly over Ernestine Saxony following the death of their father John the Steadfast in 1532. The co-rulership was short-lived — George died in 1539 — but these joint issues capture a transitional moment when Lutheran Saxony was consolidating its identity against both imperial pressure and the ongoing fractures of the Reformation. John Frederick would later lose the electorate entirely at Mühlberg in 1547, making the Ernestine thalers of the 1530s the high-water mark of that branch's political authority.