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1/8 Talara wikariackiego - August II Mocny Drezno mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1711 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian effigy of Augustus II (the Strong) facing right, depicted in full armour with a flowing cloak, mounted on a rearing horse. Beneath the horse's hooves, a crowned oval coat of arms is displayed, flanked by a crossed sword and baton resting on a ground line. The coin's milled edge border frames the entire composition, and no peripheral legend is present on this face. |
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| Reverse description | Two draped arms emerging from clouds at either side of the field, each holding the imperial regalia — a crown, orb, and sceptre — above ornate thrones, symbolising the Vicariate of Saxony. Above in two lines the legend FRID: AUG: / REX ELECTOR, and below in four lines VICARIUS / POST MORT: IOSEPHI / IMPERAT: / MDCCXI., with the mintmaster's initials ILH in the lower exergue. |
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August II's Saxon treasury was funding a kingdom he'd briefly lost — Poland had been occupied by Charles XII of Sweden and Stanisław Leszczyński sat on the throne until 1709, when Poltava reversed everything. The fractional talar issues of 1711 belong to the immediate aftermath of that restoration, struck at Dresden rather than any Polish mint because the domestic minting infrastructure remained unreliable.
The "wikariackiego" designation marks this as a Vikariat issue, struck under the authority of the Saxon Elector acting as Imperial Vicar during the interregnum following Joseph I's death in April 1711.