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2 Zlotys Polskie - Nikolai I
| Issuer | Warsaw Mint |
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| Year | 1826-1830 |
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| Value | 2 Zlotys (2 Złote) |
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| Reverse description | Central design features the denomination 2 ZŁO·POL· and the date 1830 arranged in three lines within an ornate wreath of oak branches bearing acorns, tied at the base. The mint master's initials F.H. (Friedrich Hunger) appear below the wreath knot in the lower exergual area. The peripheral legend, running along a beaded border, reads MIKOŁAY I CES. ROSSYI WSZKRZESICIEL KROL POLSKI PANULACY, proclaiming Nicholas I as Emperor of All Russia, Restorer and Reigning King of Poland. The composition is balanced and typical of the refined neoclassical style of the Warsaw Mint. |
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Issued under the constitutional Kingdom of Poland, a nominally autonomous state under Russian imperial control established at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, these coins reflect the uneasy dual sovereignty of the period — Nikolai I ruled simultaneously as Tsar of Russia and King of Poland under a separate Polish constitution. That arrangement collapsed entirely with the November Uprising of 1830, which began just as this series was ending. Warsaw Mint production halted, and post-rebellion coinage was reissued under openly Russian imperial authority with the constitutional fiction abandoned.