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⅔ Thaler - Frederick August I Death
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Value | ⅔ Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick August I — Augustus the Strong — did not actually die in 1717. This is a memorial thaler struck to mark the death of his father, Elector John George IV, who died in 1694, but that reading is almost certainly wrong too. The most plausible identification is that this piece commemorates the death of Frederick August's predecessor in the Albertinian line, though the KM#826 attribution firmly places it at 1717, a year with no obvious Saxon electoral death to commemorate — making misattribution in the reference literature a real possibility worth noting before purchase.