Grosz koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Kraków mint

The 1767 coinage reform under Poniatowski was driven by a chronic shortage of small silver and the rampant debasement of earlier issues circulating in the Commonwealth. The Kraków mint had been dormant for stretches of the mid-century and was pressed back into service specifically to meet this demand. Kop#2189 identifies a specific die pairing within the type — Kopicki's cataloguing of this series remains the standard reference precisely because the varietal differences are numerous and matter to attribution.