Obverse: Bust of John George II right wearing electoral robes, shouldering sword, cap on table beneath him.
Legend: IOHAN . GEORG . II . D . G . DUX . SAX . IUL . CLIV . ET . MONT (cross-topped orb)
Reverse: Garnished crested arms dividing engraver´s intials (C-R).
Legend: SACROM IMP AR CHIM ET ELECT . (privy mark) . 16 - 63
Mint Place: Bautzen
Mint Place: Dresden (Germany)
Reference: Davenport 7617, Schnee 909, C/K 388, KM-474. R!
Mint Official: Constantin Rothe (engraver in Dresden for Bautzen)
Ruler (Elector): John George II.
Weight: 29.01 gram of Silver
Diameter: 46 mm
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Saxon thaler
The Thaler was the currency of the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony until 1857. Between 1754 and 1841, it was equal to three quarters of a Conventionsthaler and was subdivided into 24 Groschen, each of 12 Pfennig. In 1841, Saxony partially decimalized, dividing the Thaler (now equal to the Prussian Thaler) into 30 Neugroschen, each of 10 Pfennig. The Thaler was replaced by the Vereinsthaler at par.
The duchies of Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha also issued coinage according to the Saxon system, from 1841 and 1837, respectively.
John George II, Elector of Saxony
John George (31 May 1613 – 22 August 1680) was the Elector of Saxony from 1656 to 1680. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
He was the third (fourth in order of birth)[citation needed] but eldest surviving son of the Elector John George I of Saxony and Magdalene Sybille of Prussia, his second spouse.[citation needed] He succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony when John George I died on 8 October 1656.
In 1657 John George made an arrangement with his three brothers with the object of preventing disputes over their separate territories, and in 1664 he entered into friendly relations with Louis XIV. He received money from the French king, but the existence of a strong anti-French party in Saxony induced him occasionally to respond to the overtures of the emperor Leopold I.
The elector's primary interests were not in politics, but in music and art. He adorned Dresden, which under him became the musical centre of Germany; welcoming foreign musicians and others he gathered around him a large and splendid court, and his capital was the constant scene of musical and other festivals.
In 1658 John George was accepted into the Fruitbearing Society, through the patronage of Duke William of Saxe-Weimar.
His enormous expenditure on the arts compelled John George in 1661 to grant greater control over monetary matters to the estates, a step which laid the foundation of the later system of finance in Saxony. Also, his government was less effective in establishing absolutist rule and a standing army than were Bohemia or Prussia.
John George's reign saw the slow economic reconstruction of Saxony after the Thirty Years' War. New trades and manufactures developed, such as textiles, hard coal and glass. Locally mined silver filled the Electorate's empty treasury, and the Leipzig Trade Fair and the Bohemian Exulanten of 1654 also stimulated economic activity.
John George died in Freiberg on 22 August 1680.