The 1766 crown talar of Stanisław August Poniatowski was struck at Warsaw during a period of intense political pressure on the Commonwealth, with Russia effectively dictating domestic policy through Ambassador Repnin. Lead examples of this type are almost certainly contemporary or later trial pieces — lead strikes were never issued for circulation and would have been produced for die testing, archival purposes, or collector cabinets.
Kop. 2454 places this within Kopicki's systematic cataloguing of Polish lead trials, a category that survived in disproportionate numbers through institutional collections rather than commerce.
The 1766 crown talar of Stanisław August Poniatowski was struck at Warsaw during a period of intense political pressure on the Commonwealth, with Russia effectively dictating domestic policy through Ambassador Repnin. Lead examples of this type are almost certainly contemporary or later trial pieces — lead strikes were never issued for circulation and would have been produced for die testing, archival purposes, or collector cabinets.
Kop. 2454 places this within Kopicki's systematic cataloguing of Polish lead trials, a category that survived in disproportionate numbers through institutional collections rather than commerce.