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Grosz koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Kraków mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1765 |
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| Reference(s) | Kop#2179 |
| Obverse description | Royal cipher of Stanisław August Poniatowski — an interlaced SA monogram surmounted by a royal crown — occupies the central field. The date 1765 is divided on either side of the monogram, with '17' to the left and '65' to the right. The design is executed in a bold, decorative baroque style with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The copper grosz of 1765 was among the first coins struck under Poniatowski's authority after his election in September 1764 — an election engineered in no small part by Catherine the Great, whose troops surrounded Warsaw during the sejm vote. Monetary reform was a stated priority from the outset; the Commonwealth's copper coinage had been in a degraded, chaotic state for decades, with privately minted boratynki still circulating at wildly inconsistent weights.
The Kraków mint's involvement in the 1765 issues was short-lived. Warsaw would soon dominate production as the reform program centralized.