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Ducat - August III Sas Drezno mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1747 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | LUDOVICI DELPHINI ET MARIAE JOSEPHAE REG. POL. PRINC. CONNUBIUM DRESDAE MDCCXLVII. |
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| Mintage | 1747 - Kopicki 11547 |
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August III ruled Poland as an absentee king, spending the bulk of his reign in Dresden and leaving domestic governance to his minister Heinrich von Brühl. The Drezno (Dresden) mint struck this ducat under Saxon court supervision rather than Polish administrative control — a distinction that mattered enormously to the Sejm, which repeatedly contested the crown's monetary prerogatives throughout the 1740s.
Kopicki 11547 is among the more frequently encountered August III ducats, but survivors in honest original surfaces are not. Saxon striking practices at Dresden favored a harder die steel than Polish mints used, producing sharper initial impressions that paradoxically attracted more aggressive cleaning by later collectors.