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Trojak historyczny - Stanisław August Poniatowski Kraków mint
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Poland (Kraków Mint) |
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| Year | 1767 |
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| Diameter | 21.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of King Stanisław August Poniatowski occupies the central field, rendered in a classical neoclassical style with fine hair detail and a curled queue. The king's portrait is truncated at the shoulder and faces right. A continuous Latin legend surrounds the effigy along the rim. The coin's die work reflects the engraving style of Jan Filip Holzhaeusser, the principal engraver of the Polish royal mint during this period. |
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| Mint | Kraków Mint |
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The 1767 trojak falls within the early coinage reforms of Stanisław August Poniatowski, who inherited a monetary system so debased by Saxon-era mismanagement that foreign merchants routinely refused Polish coin at face value. The Kraków mint, politically inconvenient given the city's proximity to Austrian Silesia, was operating under close scrutiny from the Sejm during this period of attempted fiscal stabilization.
Kop#2278 is among the catalogued varieties distinguished in Kopicki's exhaustive typology of the series — the trojak denomination itself harked back to the 16th-century Sigismund issues, making it a deliberate archaism by the time Poniatowski revived it.