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Złotówka koronna - Stanisław August Poniatowski Warszawa mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1771 |
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| Currency | First Zloty (1573-1795) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | PROBATUS AD PONDERIS |
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The 1771 copper złotówka falls squarely within the ill-fated monetary reform program pushed through under Poniatowski's reign — an attempt to rationalize a coinage system that had been debased and counterfeited into near-uselessness over the preceding decades. The Sejm's reforms were perpetually undermined by Sejm liberum veto politics and foreign interference, particularly Prussian objections to any Polish fiscal independence.
Prussia was actively flooding Polish markets with counterfeit copper coinage during this period — a deliberate economic destabilization strategy. The Warsaw mint struggled to assert enough volume to crowd out the fakes.