fwo_835625 - GERMANY - SAXONY - DUCHY OF SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I 1/12 thaler 1623 Leipzig
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Price : 60.00 €
Type : 1/12 thaler
Date: 1623
Mint name / Town : Leipzig
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,26 g.
Obverse
Obverse legend : (ROSE) IOHAN. GEORG. D: G. DVX. SAX. IVL. CL. ET M.
Obverse description : Écu festonné aux armes de Saxe.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SA. ROMAN. IMP. ARCHIM. ET. EL (MM) 16-23.
Reverse description : Trois écus à l'allemande posés 2 et 1 surmontés d'un globe crucigère et accosté de H - I.
Historical background
GERMANY - SAXONY - DUCHY OF SAXONY - JOHN-GEORGE I
(1591-1656)
Jean-Georges, son of Christian I (1586-1591), belongs to the Albertine line of the Saxony family. On the death of their father, a distant cousin of the Ernestine line, Frédéric-Guillaume de Saxe-Altenburg, was 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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