fwo_910812 - POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - STANISLAW II AUGUSTUS Thaler 1766 Varsovie

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - STANISLAW II AUGUSTUS Thaler 1766 Varsovie AU

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Type : Thaler

Date: 1766

Mint name / Town : Varsovie

Quantity minted : 78000

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰

Diameter : 42 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 27,95 g.

Edge : feuillue

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce thaler est frappé sur un flan large et plutôt régulier présentant des reliefs nets. Léger nettoyage

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.18/187 - Dav.1618

Obverse

Obverse legend : STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS D.G. REX POL. M.D. LITHU..

Obverse description : Buste cuirassé et décoré à droite de Stanislas Auguste.

Obverse translation : (Stanislas Auguste, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Pologne).

Reverse

Reverse legend : X EX MARCA PURA - COLONIEN 1766..

Reverse description : Écu couronné, écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Pologne, aux 2 et 3 de Lituanie, sur le tout de Poniatowski, reposant sur une couronne végétale formée à gauche d'une branche de chêne et à droite d'une palme.

Historical background

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - STANISLAW II AUGUSTUS

(1764-1795)

Stanislas II was born in Wolczyn on January 17, 1732. He was the lover of the future Catherine II of Russia and in 1757 he was appointed Polish Ambassador to Saint Petersburg. He became king of Poland in 1764. In 1768 he had to fight against the confederation of Bar, a patriotic league which opposed the royal power and foreign powers. The confederates were defeated in 1772 which caused a division of Poland between Austria, Prussia and Russia. In what remained of Poland, Stanislaus tried to impose a hereditary monarchy. He favored the bourgeois classes which provoked opposition from the nobility which formed the Confederation of Targowica in 1792. The following year, Poland was again divided and on November 27, 1795 Stanislas II Augustus Poniatowski abdicated. He died in Saint Petersburg on February 12, 1798.

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