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⅙ Thaler - Frederick August II
| Uitgever | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Kingdom of |
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| Jaar | 1851-1852 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Friedrich August II of Saxony, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curled hair. The truncation of the bust is cut cleanly at the shoulder. A circular legend surrounds the portrait, separated from the beaded border by a narrow field. The mint mark 'F' appears below the bust near the inner border. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Centrally placed crowned and draped Saxon coat of arms, featuring the distinctive barry of ten with a bend sinister charged with a crancelin, flanked by elaborate foliate mantling. The royal crown surmounts the shield. A circular legend surrounds the central device within a beaded border, indicating the denomination and fine mark equivalent. The date is split and positioned in the lower field on either side of the shield base. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Frederick August II ruled Saxony through the turbulent revolutionary year of 1848, when Dresden itself became a flashpoint — the May Uprising of 1849 saw Richard Wagner and Mikhail Bakunin among the barricade organizers before Prussian troops were called in to suppress it. The king's government emerged shaken but intact, and coinage continued under the conventions of the Dresden Monetary Treaty of 1838, which had standardized thaler fractions across the German states.
The ⅙ thaler denomination was a creature of that treaty system, filling a practical gap in everyday commerce. Frederick August II died unexpectedly in 1854 following a carriage accident, cutting short a reign that had navigated some of the most destabilizing years in Saxon political history.