fwo_826963 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS 1/6 Thaler 1827
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Type : 1/6 Thaler
Date: 1827
Quantity minted : 48000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 521 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,39 g.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRIEDRICH AUGUST *KOENIG VON SACHSEN.
Obverse description : Portrait à droite de Frédéric-Auguste.
Obverse translation : (Frédaric-Guillaume III roi de Prusse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOLLENDET / D.5 MAI 1827 / PS.91 V.14-16 / LXXX 1/6 E.F.M..
Reverse description : Dans le champ.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF SAXONY - FREDERICK-AUGUSTUS
(11/12/1806-5/05/1827)
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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