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2 Groschens - Frederick August III
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1790 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CLX · EINE FEINE MARCK · 1790 I· C· |
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Frederick August III of Saxony spent much of his reign navigating the political wreckage left by the Seven Years' War, during which Saxon territories had been occupied and the Dresden mint effectively paralyzed. By 1790, the electorate had stabilized its coinage sufficiently to issue small silver pieces again, though the broader monetary landscape of the Holy Roman Empire was already fracturing under the pressure of revolutionary events across the Rhine. Frederick would later be forced by Napoleon to accept elevation to King of Saxony in 1806, rendering all Electoral-period issues historically terminal.