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2 Vereinsthaler - Johann
| Issuer | Royal Saxon Mint |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The elaborately detailed crowned coat of arms of Saxony, quartered and centrally placed, is supported on either side by a rampant lion facing outward. The shield bears the Arms of Saxony with the Rautenkranz across the barry field. An order badge is suspended below the shield. The denomination legend ZWEI VEREINSTHALER XV EIN PFUND FEIN arcs around the upper field, with the date 1861 in the lower field, all separated by five-pointed star ornaments. |
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The Vereinsthaler was the product of the Vienna Coinage Treaty of 1857, which bound Austria, Prussia, and the German middle states — including Saxony — to a unified silver standard intended to rationalize the chaotic patchwork of German monetary systems. The double Thaler denomination, struck at roughly twice the weight of the standard piece, was authorized under the treaty but saw limited use; most member states produced them sporadically and in comparatively small numbers.
Johann of Saxony reigned from 1854 to 1873, better remembered by scholars as the German translator of Dante's Divine Comedy — published under the pseudonym Philalethes — than as a monetary reformer.