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Dwuzłotówka koronna - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Warsaw |
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| Year | 1783-1785 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The crowned coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupies the central field, displaying the quartered shield with the White Eagle of Poland and the Pursuer of Lithuania, with the Ciołek dynastic emblem of the Poniatowski family on an escutcheon at the center, all surmounted by a royal crown. The shield is flanked by laurel and palm branches. The peripheral legend, divided by the arms, reads XL EX MARCA PURA COL with the date and the denomination 8 GR, while the mintmaster initials E-B appear at the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | XL EX MARCA – PURA COL 1783 8 – GR E-B |
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These zloty pieces were struck during the final decade of Polish sovereignty, as Stanisław August Poniatowski navigated an increasingly untenable position between Russian pressure and domestic reform. The king had genuine numismatic interests — he took personal involvement in the Warsaw Mint's output — and the coinage of his reign reflects an unusual degree of deliberate aesthetic ambition for a court under foreign constraint.
The 1783–1785 span falls between the First Partition of 1772 and the catastrophic Second Partition of 1793, a window of fragile stability during which the Four-Year Sejm reforms were still on the horizon. Kopicki references 2412–2415 denote die variants within the type rather than separate issues.