Stanisław A. Poniatowski [100]
Stanisław August Poniatowski (1764-1795)
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: 2005-11-18
Issue price: 600 pln
Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
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Stanisław August was one of the most tragic Polish monarchs. He outlived his country and helplessly witnessed as the neighbouring countries cynically divided the Republic between themselves.After his death, he was harshly judged. Even persons friendly to him call him „King Stan" („King Staś") in a familiar and condescending way.
He was born in Wołczyn (now in Belarus) on 17 January 1732. He was christened Stanisław Antoni. His father, a descendant of a middle nobility Poniatowski family, a capable and enterprising man was, in 1752, entrusted with the Republic's highest laic post of the Castellan of Kraków (Cracow). The mother, Konstancja, came from an ancient Czartoryski family, which was, at that time, gaining power and constituted the core of the ...