An excellent mint piece with the characteristic ill-prepared disc of efraim, but with a full mint mirror and beautiful luster on both sides.
A denomination difficult to obtain in mint condition.
Rare in such beautiful condition.
Obverse: bust to the right, in the rim legend:
D[]TVS-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 8.GR, in the rim the legend:
SAC[]IMP-ARCHIM:ET ELECT:1753-;
