>>60749020
>why did Saxony issue one in the middle of WWI only to mint a mere 100 pieces
All while making it one of the very best empire coins they made >:( I'll have to get one of the modern remakes of that coin at some point.

>during wwi
There are a lot of nice patterns and probes during that time. I bet they were planning on a big design change for most of their coinage. Picrel is 1915 and has one of the different eagle designs