3 Grossus - Frederick William II type 2 legend

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.