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Szeląg koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Kraków mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1767-1768 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | *I* SOLID R·P· G |
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These copper szelągi were struck at Kraków during one of the most turbulent stretches of Poniatowski's reign — the period immediately preceding the Bar Confederation, when Russian interference in Commonwealth affairs had reached a point of open manipulation. The Kraków mint had been reopened specifically to expand low-denomination copper coinage, partly to address chronic shortages of small change that had plagued domestic commerce for decades.
The 1767–68 dating places production squarely within the year of the "Repnin Sejm," when Russian ambassador Nikolai Repnin effectively dictated constitutional terms to the Polish parliament under military threat.