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1756, Saxony, Frederick Augustus II. Silver 1/48 Thaler (½ Groschen) Coin. VF-

Mint year: 1756
Reference: KM-883.
Mint Place: Dresden
Denomination: ½ Groschen (1/48 Thaler)
Condition: Lightly corroded, otherwise VF:
Diameter: 18mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 0.97gm

Obverse: Fractional thaler value (48) aboven denomination (EINEN/THALER) and date (1756).

Reverse: Crowned-coat-of arms of Poland with a central crowned shield of Saxony. Sprays at sides.

Augustus III (Polish: August III; 17 October 1696 â€" 5 October 1763) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 as Frederick Augustus II (German: Friedrich August II). Augustus, the heir to Augustus II the Strong, had secured the Polish throne following a war of succession against partisans of StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ"ski. The Russian Empire, which had assisted him in his bid to succeed his father, prevented him from installing his family on the Polish throne, supporting instead the aristocrat StanisÅ‚aw August Poniatowski. During his reign, Augustus spent little time in Poland and was known to prefer recreation to ruling.

Augustus was the only legitimate son of Augustus, Prince-Elector of Saxony and ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His mother was Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Groomed to succeed his father as king of Poland, Augustus converted to Catholicism in 1712; when publicly announced, this caused discontent among the Protestant Saxon aristocracy.

Upon the death of Augustus II in 1733, Augustus inherited the Saxon electorate and was elected to the Polish throne, with the support of the Russian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. He was opposed by the forces of StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ"ski, who had usurped the throne with Swedish support during the Great Northern War. Reigning from 1706 until 1709, StanisÅ‚aw was overthrown after the Swedish defeat at Poltava. Returning from exile in 1733 with the support of Louis XV of France, StanisÅ‚aw sparked the War of the Polish Succession, which concluded in 1738 with a victory for Augustus's Russian and Imperial allies.

As King, Augustus was uninterested in the affairs of his Polishâ€"Lithuanian dominion, focusing instead on hunting, the opera, and the collection of artwork (see Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister). He spent less than three years of his thirty-year reign in Poland, where political feuding between the House of Czartoryski and the Potocki paralysed the Sejm (Liberum Veto), fostering internal political anarchy and weakening the Commonwealth. Augustus delegated most of his powers and responsibilities in the Commonwealth to Heinrich von Brühl, who served in effect as the quasi-dictator of Poland.

Augustus's eldest surviving son, Frederick Christian of Saxony, succeeded his father as Elector. A Russian-supported coup d'état in Poland, instigated by the Czartoryskis, resulted in the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania on 7 September 1764. Reigning under the name Stanisław II, Poniatowski was the son of the elder Stanisław Poniatowski, a powerful Polish noble and a onetime agent of Stanisław I; he was a lover of Catherine II of Russia and as such enjoyed strong support from that Empress's court.

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