Davissons Ltd.
E-Auction 31 28 Aug 2019
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GERMAN STATES. Saxony-Albertine. Friedrich August III, with Friedrich I the Belligerent. 1904-1918. AR 5 marks. 27.79 gm. 38 mm. 500th Anniversary of Leipzig University. 1909. KM 1269. Uncirculated; lustrous.
Friedrich I along with his brother William founded the University of Leipzig in 1409, for German students who had left the University of Prague due to the Western Schism in the Catholic Church.