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Grosz srebrny koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1771 |
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| Weight | 0.6 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the elaborate crowned royal cypher of Stanisław August Poniatowski, composed of the interlaced initials S and A (Stanislaus Augustus Rex) rendered in a florid Baroque calligraphic style. The royal crown surmounting the monogram features a jewelled band and arched structure with a crosslet finial. The entire design is contained within a plain inner field, bordered by a prominent milled or grained edge collar with regular oblique reeds running the full circumference. No legend appears on this face. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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By 1771, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was hemorrhaging territory and authority, with the Bar Confederation's armed uprising against Russian influence already three years old. Poniatowski's minting of small silver denominations in Warsaw during this period was as much a political act as a fiscal one — maintaining the apparatus of a sovereign treasury while the state itself was being carved up diplomatically in St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Berlin. The first partition followed just one year later, in 1772.
The Kop. 2307 attribution places this among a tight cluster of Warsaw-struck grosz types distinguished by minor legend and die differences that Kopicki documented exhaustively.