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Talar koronny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Polish Royal Mint (Mennica Koronna) |
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| Year | 1788 |
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| Currency | First Zloty (1573-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, with loosely curled hair and a plain truncation, occupying the central field. The effigy is rendered in a refined neoclassical style characteristic of the Warsaw Mint under engraver Holzhaeusser. The circular Latin legend surrounding the bust reads STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS D.G. REX POLON. M.D. LIT. & C., denoting the king's full royal titles. The portrait is finely detailed with naturalistic facial features and flowing hair. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1788 talar was struck at a moment of acute political tension in Poland-Lithuania, just one year before the Four-Year Sejm began its ambitious constitutional reforms — reforms that would produce the Constitution of May 3rd, 1791, the first modern codified constitution in Europe. Poniatowski, a king installed largely through Russian influence, was by this point attempting to chart a genuinely independent course, and the Warsaw mint's output reflected the brief window of fiscal optimism that accompanied the Sejm's early sessions.
The Kop#2482 attribution places this among the better-documented talar varieties of the reign. Warsaw mint production for this type was not large, and genuine circulated examples show wear concentrated on the highest relief areas consistent with actual commercial use in the grain and textile trades that dominated Polish-Lithuanian interregional commerce.