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3 Pfennig - John George IV
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1693-1694 |
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| Weight | 0.7 g |
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| Obverse lettering | IK |
| Reverse description | Imperial orb (Reichsapfel) displaying the numeral 3 for the denomination, set within an ornate Baroque cartouche or frame. The date is split across the field with two digits to the left and two to the right of the central device, and the mintmaster's mark of crossed arrows appears in the design, identifying the Dresden mint. |
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John George IV ruled Saxony for barely three years before dying of smallpox in 1694 — almost certainly contracted from his mistress Magdalena Sibylla of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, who preceded him in death by only weeks. His reign produced relatively little in the way of coinage reform, and these small silver issues were struck against the backdrop of a court consumed by that scandalous affair rather than monetary policy. The electorate's minting apparatus at Dresden and Leipzig continued largely on inertia from his father's administration.