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!
2 Thalers - Frederick August I Death
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1733 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Milled |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A tall commemorative column or rostral pillar set upon a stepped rectangular plinth with an arched base, surmounted by a standing figure, occupying the center of the field in high relief against a plain background. The outer legend MEMORIAE AETERNAE OPTIMI PARENTIS encircles the design along the toothed rim, invoking eternal memory of the best of fathers. Three lines of Latin inscription are engraved on the base of the monument recording the birth and death dates of Frederick Augustus I: NAT XII MAY MDCLXX, OB I FEBR MDCCXXXIII, and the denomination 2 TH COUR. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Frederick August I — known outside Saxony as Augustus II of Poland — died in Warsaw on 1 February 1733, and the Saxon mints moved quickly to produce memorial coinage before the political situation clarified. His death triggered an immediate succession crisis: his son's claim to the Polish throne was contested, and France backed Stanisław Leszczyński, dragging Europe into the War of the Polish Succession within months. The memorial double thaler was struck while that war was still unresolved.
Dav GT II#2663 places this squarely within the German thaler series, and Schnee's attribution confirms it among the more carefully documented Saxon memorial issues of the period.