Live auction - fwo_969248 - GERMANY - ELECTORATE OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS III Thaler 1782 Dresde
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Live starting : Type : Thaler
Date: 1782
Mint name / Town : Dresde
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 39,95 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,06 g.
Edge : décorée
Slab
NGC : MS61
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sous coque NGC MS61
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRID AUGUST. D.G. SAX. ELECTOR.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Frédéric Auguste III.
Reverse
Reverse legend : X. EINE - MARCK F. // IEC // 1782.
Reverse description : écu couronné entre deux rameaux.
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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