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Zinsgroschen - Frederick III, John and George
| Issuer | Electorate of Saxony (Ernestinian Line) |
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| Year | 1500-1525 |
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| Weight | 2.66 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Zinsgroschen — literally "tithe groschen" — emerged as a denominational response to the fiscal demands of the Saxon ecclesiastical system, designed to facilitate the payment of interest obligations in a region whose silver output from the Erzgebirge mines was rapidly reshaping European monetary supply. Frederick the Wise, John the Steadfast, and George the Bearded issued jointly under the Ernestinian partition arrangements that governed Wettin territorial governance after 1485, a dynastic compromise that produced coinage bearing multiple names well into the sixteenth century.