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[[Image:SAlb52-2990.jpg|550px|thumb|Steve Album sale 51, lot 2990]]

This specimen was lot 2990 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $180. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[German States, Saxony|SAXONY]]: Anton, 1827-1836, AR thaler, 1835-G, lovely semi prooflike strike with hairlines in the obverse field, AU, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." Two different thalers were struck in Saxony in 1835: KM 1120 (regular issue for king Anton, shown here) and KM 1121 (mining thaler for king Anton). This one was issued 1829-36 and is fairly available. It is one of the last convention thalers struck in Saxony. In 1871, with the successful conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War, the currency was reformed to use pfennig and marks and the thaler was dropped, tho it remained legal tender at three mark.

''Recorded mintage'': 457,958.

''Specifications'': 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, 37 mm diameter. 

''Catalog reference:'' KM-1120, [[Silver crowns by Davenport number|Dav-867]].

''[[Bibliography|Sources:]]'' 
* Craig, William D., ''[[Germany|Germanic]] Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II,'' Mountain View, CA: 1954. 
* Davenport, John S., ''European Crowns and Talers, Since 1800, 2nd Ed.,'' London: Spink & Son, 1964.
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, ''Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins,'' Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

''Links:''
* [[Saxony 1831-S thaler Dav-867|1831-S thaler]]
* [[Saxony 1831-S thaler Dav-869|1831-S thaler, Constitution]]
* [[Saxony 1832-S thaler Dav-867|1832-S thaler]]
* [[Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1835 thaler]]
* [[Saxony 1836-G thaler Dav-867|1836-G thaler]]
* [[Saxony 1836-G thaler Dav-870|1836-G thaler, death of king Anton]]
* [[Saxony 1836-G thaler Dav-872|1836-G thaler, Friedrich August II, interrupted obverse legend]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1835]]

[[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 51]][[Category: Silver thalers of Germany]]