Schreckenberg
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The Schreckenberg is a mountain near Frohnau in the county of Erzgebirgskreis in the central Ore Mountains of Germany. It is 648.8 m above sea level. It is located one kilometre northwest of the town
View of the Schreckenberg ruins on the top of the mountain.
The Frohnau Hammer Mill below the Schreckenberg
Coinage of Saxony
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The history of Saxon coinage or Meissen-Saxon coinage comprises three major periods: the high medieval regional pfennig period, the late medieval pfennig period and the thaler period, which ended with
A 1768 Ausbeutetaler of Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony from the Dresden Mint. The inscription reads THE BLESSING OF MINING / X A FINE MARCK
Sachsenpfennige (wooden church, beam cross, cloverleaf cross and crosier pfennig)
The so-called "thin pfennig", 11th century, Magdeburg Imperial Mint
Margraviate of Meissen, Margrave Otto the Rich (1156–1190), bracteate