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⅙ Thaler - Frederick August I

Issuer Kingdom of Saxony (Albertinian Line)
Year 1806-1817
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Currency Thaler (1806-1839)
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Reverse lettering ACHTZIG EINE FEINE MARK
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S.G.H.
1/6
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Mint Dresden, Leipzig
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Frederick August I received his royal title directly from Napoleon in 1806 — the same year Saxony joined the Confederation of the Rhine and abandoned its centuries-old electoral dignity for a kingdom dependent on French patronage. When Napoleon fell, Frederick August was briefly held as a prisoner of war by the Prussians and nearly lost his throne entirely at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, ultimately ceding roughly half his territory to Prussia as the price of survival.

The eleven-year span of this type reflects that turbulence: a single coin design bridging two entirely different political worlds.

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