3 Pfennig - Frederick August I

Frederick August I ruled Saxony from 1806 until his death in 1827, meaning this type spans two reigns — production continued under his successor Anthony, who lacked a legitimate male heir and whose own brief reign kept Saxon coinage in a state of administrative inertia through the early 1830s. The Royal Saxon Mint at Dresden was operating under considerable fiscal pressure during this period, as Saxony worked to stabilize its economy following the punishing territorial losses imposed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which stripped the kingdom of roughly half its land to Prussia.