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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris B, post: 3737062, member: 87179&quot;]Just picked this one up from my favorite European dealer. The particulary well-struck elector was very appealing to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Elector wearing a robe and electoral hat, carrying sword over the right shoulder, on horseback to right, a small oval shield of 2-fold arms of electoral and ducal Saxony below, date at end of the legend, which begins at 2 o&#039;clock</p><p>Obverse Legend: DEO ET - PATRIÆ</p><p>Reverse: 12-line inscription with full name and titles of the elector</p><p><br /></p><p>Subject: Assumption of the Vicariat upon the death of Emperor Ferdinand III</p><p>Ruler: Johann Georg II</p><p>Note: Ref. Dav. 7628.&nbsp; Clauss / Kahnt 491, snow 904, Davenport 7628, collection Merseburger 1151</p><p><br /></p><p>Composition: Silver</p><p>Diameter: 43mm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1002290[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Saxony, one of the larger divisions of Germany and blessed with numerous silver mines, issued large numbers of thalers. This type was issued 1657-58 only to commemorate the death of the emperor Ferdinand III. The elector also issued a quarter thaler (KM 457), a half thaler (KM 458), a single thaler (Dav-7630), a double thaler (Dav-LS398), a triple thaler (Dav-LS397), a quadruple thaler (Dav-LS396), a single ducat (KM 463) and a double ducat (KM 464) on this occasion. We may assume he thought it was a big deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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