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1 Solidus - Carl of Saxony Mitau, curved shield
| Issuer | Courland and Semigallia, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1762 |
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| Weight | 1.30 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke Carl of Saxony facing right, wearing armour with decorative collar, occupying the majority of the coin's field. The portrait is rendered in a bold, slightly crude style characteristic of small copper coinage of the period. A beaded inner border surrounds the effigy. The circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, identifying the sitter by his titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | D · G · CAROL · PR · REG · POLON · & · SAX (Translation: Dei Gratia Carolus Princeps Regnius Poloniae Et Saxoniae With God`s grace, Carl, Prince of the Kingdom of Poland and Saxony) |
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Courland's solidus issues of the 1760s occupy an oddly suspended moment in the duchy's history — by 1762, Carl of Saxony held the title largely at Russian sufferance, and the coinage itself was more a gesture of ducal dignity than a functioning monetary instrument. The small copper pieces circulated locally but were frequently debased or counterfeited, a persistent problem across Baltic petty coinage of the period.
The curved-shield variety is distinguished from the straight-shield type in the catalogues, with Kopicki treating them as separate issues rather than die variants of a single emission.