Szeląg - August III Sas Elbląg mint

Elbląg's copper szełągi of this period occupy a peculiar corner of Polish monetary history. August III's reign saw the royal mint system increasingly undermined by privately contracted and city-mint issues, Elbląg among them, producing small copper at a rate that outpaced any coherent monetary policy from Warsaw. The Seven Years' War disrupted supply chains and trade across the region precisely during these years of issue, and much of this coinage circulated heavily in Baltic mercantile networks rather than inland Polish markets.

The Kopicki references span 7152–7169, indicating a substantial range of die varieties across the 1760–1763 window — not unusual for a municipal mint operating under loose central oversight.