1⁄24 Talara / Grosz - August III Sas Drezno mint

August III ruled the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as an absentee king for most of his reign, governing from Dresden while Polish affairs were managed — and frequently exploited — by his chief minister Heinrich von Brühl. The 1757 Dresden gold issues reflect exactly that arrangement: coins of Poland struck in Saxony, for a king who spent little time in the country whose throne he held.

1757 also placed Saxony directly in the Seven Years' War; Prussian forces had occupied Dresden the previous year. That this mint was functioning and producing gold coinage at all in 1757 is worth noting.