Attractive glossy piece with well-preserved fully legible details.
Variant with an undescribed bust and legend for this vintage in the Kaminski-Zhukowski and Kahnt catalog.
The 1706 sixpences were issued to pay for the Saxon partisan troops stationed in Lithuania. Their creation is due to King Augustus' allies - the Grand Treasurer of Lithuania Ludwik Pociej and the Russians. The coin was minted in Moscow (formerly mistakenly attributed to the mint in Grodno), due to the lack of such possibility in both the Crown and Lithuania.
On the reverse one can see the coat of arms of the Scales of Ludwik Pociej and his initials (L-P), which were derisively translated in the era as the People's Cry, due to the rapid withdrawal of the coin from circulation and the losses of Augustus' supporters.
Obverse: royal bust in armor, robe and crown, to the right, surrounded by legend:
AUGUST-II-DG-REX-POL-MDLIT-&-ELECSAX-;
Reverse: crowned shields of the Polish type with the coats of arms of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, below the coat of arms of the Wettin Dynasty, under the crown the denomination mark VI, next to the Wettin shield the initials L-P in the rim the legend punctuated by the coat of arms Scales:
GROS ARG SEX-R PO-L-&-M-A-DULIT-1706;
