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1 Grosz Polski
| Issuer | Warsaw Mint |
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| Year | 1822-1826 |
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| Thickness | 1.40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Imperial Russian double-headed eagle displayed, each head crowned with a small imperial crown, the two heads surmounted by a large imperial crown bearing a cross finial. The eagle's breast bears an escutcheon depicting the Polish White Eagle. Below the eagle's wings, the mint master's initials I·B appear in the field at the base. The eagle holds a sceptre in its right talon and an orb surmounted by a cross in its left talon. The coin's border is decorated with a fine toothed inner circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | I. B. |
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The grosz polski denominations of the 1820s were issued under the constitutional Kingdom of Poland, a nominally autonomous state under Russian imperial suzerainty established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Tsar Alexander I held the Polish crown, and the Warsaw Mint operated with a degree of independence that would not survive the November Uprising of 1830. After the insurrection was crushed, Nicholas I abolished the Polish constitution entirely, and the mint's output shifted toward unambiguously Russian-aligned coinage.
The five-year span of this type ended just before that political rupture closed the door on distinctly Polish monetary production for a generation.