Variation with FI F at the end of the inscriptions on the obverse.
Saxony, Ernestine line
Johann Friedrich I and Georg der Bärtige (1532-1539), Guldengroschen (thaler) 1536, Annaberg mint
Obverse: bust with sword, title around, quartered by arms
IOHAN FRI ELE C DVX S AX FI F
Reverse: bearded bust left, title and date around, quartered by arms
GEOR DVX SA X FIE FE A 1536
Weight 28.94 g
Johann Friedrich was the eldest son of the Saxon elector Johann of the Ernestinian line of the Wettins. In 1532, after his father's death, he became a Saxon elector. For a while, in the years 1539-1541, Johann Friedrich admitted his half-brother Johann Ernst to the co-government in the Saxon principality, but after giving him the power over Coburg and the lands in Franconia in November 1541, he again became an independent ruler of the Saxon principality.
Georg der Bärtige was the husband of Barbara Jagiellonka, daughter of the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellonian. Georg was an efficient administrator of the principality. Soon after assuming power on his own behalf, he carried out a reform of the administration and the judiciary. After Georg's death, the Saxon inheritance fell to his brother, Heinrich der Fromme.
