The first vintage of the sixpences of King Augustus II.
One of the few monetary issues minted for Poland by the first of the Saxons on the Polish throne. Minted in defiance of the Pacta conventa, which forbade August II to mint crown coin outside Poland without the consent of the Sejm and Senate. However, as T. Kalkowski points out - the king"not looking at this and knowing that the powerless Republic would not draw any consequences from this fact, immediately in 1698 he began minting Polish crown coin at the Leipzig mint." One of them were precisely the sixpences, which, after a trial issue in 1698, he minted on a larger scale in 1702.
A rarer and typologically sought-after coin.
A beautiful piece.
