Live auction - fwo_444740 - GERMANY - DUCHY OF SAXONY - ALBERTINE LINE - CHRISTIAN II, JOHN-GEORGE AND AUGUSTUS Thaler 1606 Leipzig

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XF/AU

Estimate :	500 €
Price :	315 €
Maximum bid :	326 €
End of the sale :	12 September 2017 17:44:46
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Thaler

Date: 1606

Mint name / Town : Leipzig

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Diameter : 41 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 28,54 g.

Edge : lisse

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure régulière à l’avers. Le revers est très bien venu à la frappe avec deux très beaux bustes des frères. La monnaie est couverte d’une patine grise de médaillier

Catalogue references :

Dav.7566

Obverse

Obverse legend : (GLOBE CRUCIGÈRE) CHRISTIAN: II: D: G: SA. - RO: IMP. ARCHIM. ET EL..

Obverse description : Buste de Christian II cuirassé, tête nue à droite, tenant l'épée de la main droite et un heaume de la main gauche ; 16-06 ; à l'exergue un écu coupant la légende en bas.

Obverse translation : (Christian II, par la grâce de Dieu, sacré empereur des Romains, archimaréchal et électeur).

Reverse

Reverse legend : IOHAN: GEORG: ET AVGVST. FRAT. ET. D: S: (MM)., (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 6 HEURES).

Reverse description : Bustes affrontés de Jean-Georges et d'Auguste cuirassés, têtes nues ; au-dessous un écu de Saxe.

Reverse translation : (Jean Georges et Auguste, frères [...]).

Historical background

GERMANY - DUCHY OF SAXONY - ALBERTINE LINE - CHRISTIAN II, JOHN-GEORGE AND AUGUSTUS

(1591-1611)

Christian II, Jean-Georges and Auguste, the sons of Christian I (1586-1591), belong to the Albertine line of the Saxony family. On the death of their father, a distant cousin of the Ernestine line, Frederick-William of Saxe-Altenburg, was appointed regent from 1591 to 1602 for the three brothers Christian II (1591-1611), Auguste (1591-1615) and Jean -George I (1591-1656). From 1615, Jean-Georges I reigned alone. On his death in 1656, his eldest son, Jean-Georges II, succeeded him (1656-1680).

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