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Talar koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Warsaw Mint (Mennica Warszawska) |
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| Year | 1768-1782 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (1 Talar) (8) |
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| Reverse description | The central device features the elaborate quartered royal arms of Poland-Lithuania surmounted by a royal crown, with the Ciołek bull of the Poniatowski family displayed on an escutcheon at the centre. The shield is supported by heraldic figures and flanked by oak and laurel branches. The date and mintmaster's initials (e.g. IS or AP) appear in the lower field, with a Maltese cross at the base. The surrounding Latin legend, divided across the field, reads X EX PURA ARGENTI MARCA COLONIENSI PRO FIDE PUBLICA, attesting to the coin's silver fineness according to the Cologne mark standard. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Crown Talar of Stanisław August was struck during one of the most politically turbulent stretches in Polish history — the years bracketing the First Partition of 1772, when Prussia, Russia, and Austria collectively stripped roughly 30% of the Commonwealth's territory and over a third of its population. Poniatowski, effectively a client monarch installed through Russian pressure and the personal influence of Catherine II, used coinage reform as one of the few levers of domestic policy genuinely available to him.
The Warsaw Mint reorganized its silver standards under the 1766 monetary reform, and the Crown Talar series ran across multiple die marriages catalogued separately by Kopicki — small but traceable differences in the king's portrait and reverse execution distinguish the Kop#2458 through Kop#2466 variants.