Germany, Saxony, Friedrich August II, 3 groschen 1754, Leipzig - efraim

Circulating Piece.

Typical of ephraim issues, sheet defects.

Obverse: bust of the king in crown, armor and cloak, to the right, in the rim legend:
D G AVGVSTVS III REX POLONIARUM;

Reverse: crowned five-field escutcheon with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the coat of arms of Saxony surmounted by the Elector's mitre, banded from below with a palm wreath, on the sides 8 leaves alternately broad and narrow, initials E-C, between the branches the denomination mark 3, in the rim legend:
SAC-ROM-IMP-ARCHIM-ET ELECT-1754;