Live auction - fwo_340764 - GERMANY - ELECTORATE OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS III Thaler 1792 Dresde
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| Estimate : | 450 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2014 17:08:02 |
Type : Thaler
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Dresde
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 40 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,82 g.
Edge : feuillue
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Cet exemplaire présente une usure régulière. Thaler frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise. De petites aspérités de surface à l’arrière de la tête de Frédéric-Auguste
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRID. AVGVST. D. G. DVX. SAX. ELECTOR / 1792.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé à droite de Frédéric- Auguste III.
Obverse translation : (Frédéric-Auguste, par la grâce de Dieu, duc et électeur de Saxe).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAC. ROM - IMP. PROVISOR- ITERVM / X. F.INE. MARK F. .
Reverse description : Écu couronné à deux quartiers, reposant sur une aigle bicéphale ; au-dessous I.E.C..
Reverse translation : (et du Saint-Empire Romain..., 10 marks fins).
Commentary
Les initiales I.E.C. au revers sous l’aigle, sont celles du maître de l’atelier de Dresde, Johann Ernst Croll.
Historical background
GERMANY - ELECTORATE OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS III
(17/12/1763-20/12/1806)
Frédéric-Auguste (23/12/1750-5/05/1827) is the son of Frédéric-Christian (1722-1763), short-lived elector of Saxony in 1763 and Marie-Antoinette of Bavaria. He succeeded his father under the regency of François-Xavier, his uncle (1763-1768). He is the last Elector of Saxony and the first King of Saxony (1763-1806-1827). Faithful ally of Napoleon I, he received the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and lost part of his estates at the Treaty of Vienna in 1815. Died childless, his brother Antoine who succeeds him.
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