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1 Thaler - John George I Death of John George I
| Emittent | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Jahr | 1656 |
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| Währung | Thaler (1493-1805) |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Armored and draped bust of Elector Johann Georg I facing right, wearing the electoral mantle and holding the electoral sword upright in his right hand. A two-line Latin legend encircles the effigy, recording the Elector's birth date of 5 March 1585 and his death date of 7 October 1656, along with his titles as Arch-Marshal and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire and defender of the Augsburg Confession. The portrait is rendered in the formal baroque court style characteristic of mid-seventeenth-century Saxon coinage. |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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John George I died in October 1656 after a reign of nearly four decades, having navigated Saxony through the catastrophic Thirty Years' War with a combination of late neutrality switches and territorial concessions that left the electorate intact but politically diminished. These memorial thalers were struck in the immediate aftermath of his death as a formal dynastic gesture — a tradition in the Saxon electoral house that produced some of the most technically accomplished funerary coinage in the German states.
The Schnee 894 attribution places this among a documented group of death thalers for John George I struck at the Dresden mint under Elector John George II, who wasted little time commissioning the issue.