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1 Grossus - Carl of Saxony Mitau, curved shields with wreath
| Issuer | Duchy of Courland and Semigallia |
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| Year | 1762 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring two ornate curved heraldic shields arranged side by side, adorned with a wreath and surmounted by a ducal crown. The shields bear the arms of Courland, displaying a stag, rendered in the florid Baroque style. The date 1762 appears in the lower field, flanked by the mintmaster's initials C-H-S. A circular Latin legend surrounding the design identifies this as silver coinage of the Duchy of Courland. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONET · ARGENT · DVC · CVRLAND C - H - S 1762 (Translation: Moneta Argentea Ducum Curlandiae Silver coin of the Duchy of Courland) |
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Carl of Saxony held the Duchy of Courland as a Polish vassal under deeply contested circumstances — his installation in 1759 displaced the Biron dynasty, whose patriarch Ernst Johann von Biron had only recently been restored to the duchy after two decades of Siberian exile. The grossus issues of 1762 were struck during a period when Carl's authority was actively challenged, and within two years the Birons had regained control with Russian backing, rendering Carl's coinage a brief and politically turbulent emission.