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Grosz srebrny koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1771 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field is entirely occupied by a four-line Latin inscription in large, bold Roman capital letters reading ET IN / PARVIS / PURUS / 1771, meaning 'Pure even in small things,' a motto reflecting the monetary reform aspirations of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. The date 1771 appears on the lowest line, centered beneath the motto. The design is strikingly typographic with no additional decorative elements, emphasizing the reformist and emblematic character of this pattern piece. |
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By 1771, the Commonwealth was entering its terminal political crisis — the Bar Confederation had been fighting the king and Russian influence for three years, and the first partition was less than a year away. Poniatowski's monetary reforms of the late 1760s had attempted to rationalize a badly debased coinage inherited from the Saxon kings, but the grosz srebrny remained a marginal denomination caught between fiscal ambition and political paralysis. The Warsaw mint's output during this period was increasingly constrained by the costs of suppressing internal revolt.