Talar - August III Sas Drezno mint

August III ruled the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as an absentee king, spending the bulk of his reign in Dresden rather than Warsaw, and it was at the Dresden mint that this talar was produced — a pointed illustration of where his actual loyalties and administrative apparatus sat. Saxon minting infrastructure was routinely pressed into service for Polish coinage throughout his reign, a practical arrangement that suited a monarch who found Saxony considerably more congenial than his elective kingdom.

Kopicki 11463 is among the later Dresden-struck talers of the type, issued just three years before the Seven Years' War would devastate Saxon finances and effectively end coherent minting operations in Dresden for several years.