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3 Grossus - Frederick William II type 2 legend
| Issuer | Prussian Partition of Poland |
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| Year | 1796-1797 |
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| Currency | South Prussia - First Złoty (1793-1807) |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned draped bust of Frederick William II, King of Prussia, facing right, depicted in the late Baroque portrait style with flowing powdered wig. The effigy is rendered in bold relief and occupies the majority of the coin's field. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait along the rim, reading FRIDERICUS WILHELM. BORUSS. REX, identifying the monarch as King of Prussia. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Prussian partition coins issued for occupied Polish territories were a deliberate administrative tool — Frederick William II needed a circulating coinage that would function within the annexed lands while signaling Hohenzollern authority over what had been, until the Third Partition of 1795, a sovereign state. The type 2 legend variant distinguishes itself from its predecessor through a revised inscription arrangement, a modification almost certainly driven by die recutting rather than any policy change.
Production ran across 1796–1797, the final year overlapping with Frederick William II's death in November 1797.