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⅔ Thaler - Frederick August II Marriage
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1738 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Nine-line Latin inscription filling the field, commemorating the betrothal of Charles, King of Both Sicilies, and Maria Amalia, Princess of Poland, celebrated at Dresden in the year 1738. The text reads in full: CAROLI / UTRIUSQUE / SICILIAE REGIS ET / MARIAE AMALIAE / REGIAE POLONIAE / PRINCIPIS SPON- / SALIA DRESDAE / ANNO / MDCCXXXVIII. The coin is struck with a milled border of fine beading encircling the entire obverse field. |
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| Mint | Dresden Mint |
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Struck to commemorate the 1738 marriage of Frederick August II of Saxony to Maria Josepha of Austria, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I — a politically calculated union binding two of the most powerful Catholic dynasties in central Europe. Saxony had converted to Catholicism under Augustus the Strong in 1697, a move that secured the Polish throne but remained deeply unpopular with the Lutheran population. Marriage coins of this period functioned as diplomatic currency as much as commemorative pieces.
The ⅔ Thaler denomination — equivalent to the North German Gulden — was a practical choice for wide circulation across the fractured imperial monetary system.