v09_1435 - POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - STANISLAW II AUGUSTUS Demi-thaler 1788 Varsovie
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 144.83 €
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 144.83 €
Type : Demi-thaler
Date: 1788
Mint name / Town : Varsovie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,68 g.
Edge : en relief : [F]IDEI* PUBLICAE* PIGNUS** (fleuron)**
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce demi-thaler est frappé sur un flan large ; il présente un haut relief au revers qui apparaît toutefois un peu plus faible au droit. Le portrait présente de très légères stries d'ajustage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS D. G. REX POL. M. D. LIT..
Obverse description : Tête à droite de Stanislas Poniatowski.
Obverse translation : (Stanislas Auguste, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Pologne, grand duc de Lituanie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : 20 7/8 EX MARCA PUR: - (MM) - COLONIENS: 1788..
Reverse description : Écu couronné, écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Pologne, aux 2 et 3 de Lituanie, sur le tout de Poniatowski, entouré du ruban de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit, reposant sur une couronne végétale formée à gauche d'une branche de chêne et à droite d'une palme ; la couronne coupe la légende en haut.
Reverse translation : (20 7/8 au marc fin de Cologne).
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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