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Gulden - ⅔ Talara - August III Sas Drezno mint

Issuer Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Year 1747
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Shape Round
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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August III ruled the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as an absentee king, spending the bulk of his reign in Dresden and leaving Polish monetary affairs largely to his Saxon administration. The ⅔ Talar denomination — a Gulden by another name — was a unit more native to the German monetary system than to Polish tradition, reflecting how thoroughly Saxon financial conventions bled into Commonwealth coinage under this dynasty.

Kopicki 11546 is a Dresden product, struck at the Elector's Saxon mint rather than on Commonwealth soil. That distinction matters: Dresden output for Polish titles often shows sharper die work than contemporary issues from Grodno or Warsaw.

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