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2 Ducats - Frederick August I 300th Anniversary of the Leipzig University
| Issuer | Dresden Mint |
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| Year | 1709 |
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| Weight | 7 g |
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| Edge | Milled |
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| Mintage | 1709 |
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Leipzig University's tercentenary fell in 1709 — the same year Augustus the Strong was navigating the catastrophic aftermath of the Great Northern War, having backed the losing side against Charles XII of Sweden and temporarily lost the Polish throne. That he commissioned commemorative gold at all that year speaks to the deliberate political theater of the issue: projecting dynastic stability while Saxony's finances were under severe strain.
The Albertine Wettin connection to Leipzig went back to the university's 1409 founding, when German masters and students mass-migrated from Prague following the Kutná Hora Decree. Frederick August I claimed that inheritance directly.