Saxon, Augustus II the Strong (1697-1733), commemorative thaler 1717, Dresden mint, NGC MS62
obverse: crown and legend in FRIDERICUS AUGUSTUS / REX POLON ET ELECTOR SAXON / MATRI DILECTISSIMAE / ANNAE SOPHIAE /.
PRINC HERED REG DAN / FLENSBURGI D 1 SEPT 1647 NATAE / VIDUAE ELECT SAXON / LICHTENBURGI D 1 IUL 1717 DENATAE /
QVAE / ILLUSTRIS VIXIT ILLUSTRIS NUNC VIVIT / ILLUSTRI FUNERE UT ILLUSTRETUR / RENUIT / MONUMENTUM PERENNE / F F F
reverse: ship sailing out of port, above it the inscription DEO DUCE, below the ship PORTUM INVENIT
and initials I G S - Jan Jerzy Schomburg and the mint mark hook.
Thaler minted in a series of coins (with 7 from a penny to a ducat) commemorating the death of the Polish king's mother
Anna Sophia Oldenburg (1647-1717) on July 1.
Beautiful patina, highlighting the minting details.
Anna Sophia Oldenburg was born on September 1, 1647 in Flensburg as a Danish princess and eldest daughter of
Frederick III Oldenburg, ruler of Denmark, Norway, Greenland and Iceland, and Sophia Amelia Brunswick. In 1666 (at the age of 22) she became the
wife of John George III Wettyn, Elector of Saxony. The electoral couple lived to see two sons of John George IV Wettin
Elector of Saxony from 1691 to 1694, and Frederick Augustus I, better known as Augustus II the Strong, king of Poland from 1697 to 1733
and as the father of Augustus III Saxon. Anna Sophie Oldenburg died on July 1, 1717 at Lichtenberg Castle near Prettin at the age of 70.
To commemorate her death, her son August II issued a series of silver coins ranging from a penny (halerza) to a ducat.
