August II Mocny [100]
August II Mocny (1697-1706, 1709-1733)
Face value: 100 pln
Alloy: 900/1000 Au
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 8 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 4200 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2005-02-22
Issue price: 510 pln
Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
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Elector of Saxony Frederick Augustus of Wettin house, later on named August II Mocny, was born on 12 May 1670 in Dresden as a son of Elector John George III and Anne Sophia, Danish princess. He lived his youth in times of the most intense rise of the influences of French king Louis XIV, visiting courts of Western Europe. He participated in a war with France (in years 1689-92) and Turkey (in years 1695-96). The person of Louis XIV and French model of absolutism constituted for him, as a Saxon elector and later on Polish king, an example to follow.
In 1697 he came to the throne of Saxony. Putting into practice political projects of his father (gaining by Saxony self-government within Reich and independence from Austria), he converted to Catholicism and decided ...