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1⁄48 Talara / Półgrosz - August III Sas Lipsk mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1761 |
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| Currency | First Zloty (1573-1795) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 48 EINEN THALER 1761 L |
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August III's Saxon administration struck these half-grosze at Leipzig — "Lipsk" in Polish — rather than on Commonwealth soil, a practice that drew persistent criticism from Polish magnates who viewed Saxon mint operations as an extraction mechanism benefiting Dresden at Warsaw's expense. The Leipzig facility produced enormous quantities of small silver throughout the 1750s and 1760s, flooding Commonwealth markets and contributing to the currency debasement that would become a central grievance of the reform-minded nobility in the years before the First Partition.
Kopicki lists two varieties at 11227 and 11228, distinguished by minor die differences.