Ducat - August II Mocny Drezno mint

August II — Friedrich August I of Saxony — secured the Polish throne in 1697 through bribery on a staggering scale, converting to Catholicism as a political calculation days before his election and reportedly spending over nine million thalers buying noble votes. His Dresden mint struck ducats in that election year as much to project dynastic credibility as to meet any monetary need. The Kop(-) reference signals this piece sits outside Kopicki's numbered corpus entirely, which for a single-year Dresden emission under a freshly crowned foreign king is exactly what the survival record would predict.