1/3 Thaler - Frederick August III

Frederick August III—later Frederick August I of Saxony—was Elector during a period of mounting pressure from Revolutionary France, and the Saxon court's financial obligations to the Holy Roman Empire made silver coinage a practical necessity rather than a ceremonial one. The 1/3 Thaler denomination had been a Saxon workhorse since the seventeenth century, filling the gap between the heavy full Thaler and the smaller groschen fractions that dominated everyday trade.

Buck 183 cross-references cleanly with KM#1032 without recorded die anomalies in the literature — no known varieties distinguish this date.