Dwutalar - August II Mocny Drezno mint

1706 was not a year in which Augustus II held meaningful authority over Poland. Charles XII of Sweden had driven him from the throne the previous year, and the Treaty of Altranstädt, signed in September 1706, formally forced his abdication in favor of the Swedish-backed Stanisław Leszczyński. This piece was struck at Dresden — not a Polish mint — because Augustus retained control of his Saxon electorate even as his Polish crown slipped away. A coin minted in Saxony, denominated for a Commonwealth he no longer ruled, by a king whose abdication was being finalized as the dies were cut.