A beautiful, gearless example of Prussian forgery. Minus awarded for silvering rubbing visible in the highest parts of the relief.
Coin graced by the Probierz General with the PG hallmark.
A very rare item in the trade most likely sent to customs chambers as a model to catch a counterfeit coin from circulation.
A silent witness to the turbulent history of the end of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, bearing witness to the deliberate strategy of the King of Prussia for the economic destruction of the Polish Kingdom.
Obverse: crowned five-field escutcheon with the coats of arms of the Crown, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Ciołek coat of arms of the Poniatowskis, the escutcheon on a laurel and palm wreath, in the rim the legend:
STANISLAUS AUG.D.G.REX POL M D.L.;
Reverse: inscription in 6 lines:
2.GR./CLX.EX/MARCA/PURA-COL./1766/F.S.;
