Coronation token minted on the occasion of the coronation of Augustus III Sas as King of Poland in 1734 at Wawel Castle.
Obverse: crown and inscription all around
MERVIT ET TVEBITVR
Reverse: inscription in seven lines
AVGVSTVS III REX POLONIARVM MAGN DVX LITH ELECTVS V OCT MDCCXXXIII CORONAT XVII IAN MDCCXXXIV
Diameter 25 mm, weight 3.45 g
For the sixteen initial years of his reign, Augustus III Saxon had essentially no minting policy. It was not until 1749 that the decision was made to start the production of copper shekels and pennies. This task was carried out by three mints: in Dresden, Gruntal and Gubin. In turn, in 1752, Leipzig began producing gold coins (augustdors and ducats and their fractions and multiples), as well as silver coins (thalers, half-talers, two-gold coins, tymphes, orts, sixpences, triples and halves). From a formal point of view, the letting go of mints issuing Polish coins was illegal. This is because the Polish Sejm did not give its consent. The same can be said of the activities of municipal mints in Royal Prussia. Gdansk, Torun and Elblag began mint production without asking the permission of Treasurer Karol Sedlnicki.
