1⁄48 Talara / Półgrosz - August II Mocny Drezno mint

August II ruled the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as an elected king while simultaneously holding Saxony as hereditary Elector — a dual authority that produced chronic friction between Warsaw and Dresden over fiscal policy. These small silver pieces were struck at the Dresden mint under Saxon administration, a arrangement that gave Wettin court controllers significant leverage over Commonwealth coinage at the petty denomination level. The long production window across three and a half decades means die varieties within the Kopicki range are numerous, and attributing specific years within the series requires close comparison against documented obverse and reverse die pairings.