Live auction - fwo_542594 - POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - AUGUSTUS III Thaler 1754 Leipzig

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Estimate :	1 000 €
Price :	692 €
Maximum bid :	812 €
End of the sale :	03 December 2019 19:45:34
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Thaler

Date: 1754

Mint name / Town : Leipzig

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Diameter : 43 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 28,61 g.

Edge : décorée

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure importante avec de petites porosités et des rayures à l’avers. Le revers est plus beau. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

Dav.1617 - KM18/923.3

Obverse

Obverse legend : D G. AVGVSTVS. III. REX. POLONIARUM.

Obverse description : Buste couronné d’Auguste III à droite, drapé et cuirassé, portant le collier de l’ordre de la Toison d’or.

Obverse translation : (Par la grâce de Dieu, Auguste III, roi des Polonais).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SAC. ROM. IMP. ARCHIM. ET ELECT. 1754.

Reverse description : Écu couronné, écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Pologne, aux 2 et 3 de Lituanie, un petit écu sur le tout, reposant sur une couronne végétale formée de deux palmes ; la couronne coupe la légende en haut. Sous l’écu 18, de part et d’autre E D C.

Reverse translation : (empereur du Saint-Empire, archimaréchal et électeur).

Commentary

Auguste III était à la fois roi de Pologne et duc de Saxe.

Historical background

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - AUGUSTUS III

(1733-1763)

Augustus III was born in Dresden on October 17, 1696 and is the son of Augustus II. He was elector of Saxony under the name of Frederic-Auguste II and king of Poland, from 1733 to 1763, under the name of Auguste III. Frederick the Great drove him out of Saxony twice, in 1746 and 1756. He died in Dresden on October 5, 1763.