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⅙ Thaler - John George IV
| Issuer | Saxony (Albertinian Line), Electorate of |
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| Year | 1692-1693 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1493-1805) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1692 IK - - 1693 IK - - |
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John George IV ruled Saxony for just three years before dying of smallpox in 1694, almost certainly contracted from his mistress Magdalena Sibylla von Neidschutz, who had died of the same disease weeks earlier. His reign was politically inconsequential but numismatically active, with the Dresden and Leipzig mints producing a full range of denominations through 1693. The ⅙ Thaler occupied a practical mid-tier denomination in Saxon coinage, circulating in a region still economically recovering from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War half a century prior.