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1845, Kingdom of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II.  Silver  Thaler Coin. VF-aXF!

Mint Year: 1845 Mint Place: Dresden Denomination:  Thaler Reference:  KM-1148. Mint Official: Gustav Theodor Fischer (F)   Condition: Numerous circulation-marks and scratches, light deposits, otherwise VF-aXF! Material: Silver (.900) Weight: 22.12gm Diameter: 34mm

Obverse: Head of Frederick August II of Saxony right. Mint official´s initial (F) below. Legend: FRIEDR. AUG. V. G. G. KOENIG V. SACHSEN Reverse: Crowned coat-of-arms of Saxony, adorned with a cross-order, which splits date (18-45). Legend: EIN THALER XIV EINE F.M. / 18-45

Frederick Augustus II (full name: Frederick Augustus Albert   Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus   Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix) (German: Friedrich August   II.; b. Dresden, 18 May 1797 – d. Brennbüchel,   in Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

He was the eldest son of Maximilian,   Prince of Saxony --younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of   Saxony—by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of   Parma.

From his birth, it was clear that one day Frederick Augustus would   become King of Saxony. His father was the only son of the Elector   Frederick Christian of Saxony who left surviving male issue. When the   King Frederick Augustus I died (1827) and Anton succeeded him as King,   Frederick Augustus became second in line to the throne, preceded only by   his father Maximilian.

He was an officer in the Wars of   Liberation. However, he had hardly interest in military affairs.

The July Revolution of 1830 in France marked the beginning   of disturbances in Saxony that autumn. The people claimed a change in   the constitution and demanded a young regent of the kingdom to share the   government with the King Anton. On 1 September the Prince Maximilian   renounced his rights of succession in favor of his son Frederick   Augustus, who was proclaimed Prince Co-Regent (de: Prinz-Mitregenten)   of Saxony. On 2 February 1832 Frederick Augustus brought Free Autonomy   to the cities. Also, by an edict of 17 March of that year, the farmers   were freed from the corvée and hereditary submission.

On 6 June 1836 the King Anton died and Frederick Augustus succeeded   him as King. As an intelligent man, he was quickly popular with the   people as he had been since the time of his regency. The new king solved   political questions only from a pure sense of duty. Mostly he preferred   to leave these things on the hands of his ministers.

A standardized jurisdiction for Saxony created the Criminal   Code of 1836. During the Revolutionary   disturbances of 1848 (March Revolution), he appointed liberal   ministers in the government, lifted censorship, and remitted a liberal   electoral law. Later his attitude changed. On 28 April Frederick August   II dissolved the Parliament. In 1849, Frederick Augustus was forced to   flee to the Königstein Fortress. The May Uprising was crushed by Saxon and Prussian   troops and Frederick was able to return after only a few days.

During a journey in Tyrol, he had an accident in Brennbüchel in which he fell   from in front of a horse that stepped on his head. On 8 August 1854, he   died in the Gasthof Neuner. He was buried on the 16 August in the Katholische Hofkirche of Dresden.   In his memory, the Dowager Queen Maria arranged to establish a King's   chapel at the accident place, which was consecrated one year later.

In Vienna on 26 September 1819 (by proxy) and again in Dresden on 7 October 1819 (in person), Frederick Augustus married firstly with   the Archduchess   Maria Caroline of Austria (Maria Karoline Ferdinande Theresia   Josephine Demetria), daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. They had no children.

In Dresden on 24 April 1833 Frederick Augustus married secondly with the Princess   Maria of Bavaria (Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine),   daughter of the King Maximilian I of   Bavaria. Like his first marriage, this was childless.

Without issue, after his death Frederick Augustus was succeeded by   his younger brother, Johann.

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