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Dukat koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1772-1779 |
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| Currency | First Zloty (1573-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of King Stanisław August Poniatowski occupying the central field, rendered in high relief with elaborately curled hair tied at the nape. The portrait is executed in a refined Baroque-Neoclassical style characteristic of the Warsaw Mint during the latter eighteenth century. The encircling Latin legend reads STANISLAUS AUG. D.G. REX POL. M.D.L., identifying the monarch as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania by the grace of God. The effigy is naturalistically modeled, conveying both authority and refinement befitting the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
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| Mintage | 1772 - Kopicki 2509 - 1772 - Kopicki 2510 - 1773 - Kopicki 2511 - 1774 - Kopicki 2512 - 1774 - Kopicki 2513 - 1775 - Kopicki 2514 - 1776 - Kopicki 2515 - 1777 - Kopicki 2516 - 1778 - Kopicki 2517 - 1779 - Kopicki 2518 - |
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These ducats were struck in the years bracketing the First Partition of 1772, when Russia, Prussia, and Austria collectively seized roughly 30% of the Commonwealth's territory and over a third of its population. Poniatowski — placed on the throne by Catherine II in the first place — was largely powerless to resist. The Warsaw mint continued issuing gold coinage almost as an assertion of sovereign continuity, even as the partition treaties were being ratified.
The Kop#2509–2513 sequence spans multiple die years, each catalogued separately by Kopicki due to subtle legend and punctuation variants rather than any fundamental design change.