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Dukat toruński - August II Mocny Toruń mint
| Issuer | City of Toruń |
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| Year | 1702 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | CAROLUS.XII.D.G.SUE.GOTHO.VANDALO.REX. / AUGUSTUS.II.REX.POL.M.D.L. |
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Toruń's right to strike municipal gold dated back to privileges granted in the medieval period, but by 1702 the city was operating under acute military and political pressure — the Great Northern War was tearing through the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Swedish forces under Charles XII had effectively partitioned loyalties across Royal Prussia. August II's name on this ducat was as much a political statement as a monetary one, asserting Saxon-Polish authority over a city that Swedish-backed factions were actively courting.
Kop. 8377 is among the scarcer municipal gold issues of the Commonwealth period. Toruń's mint output was never high-volume, and wartime disruption to trade routes meant many pieces were hoarded rather than circulated.