Poland (Białogon Foundry) Cast Medal ND - Augustus III (1733-1763)

33.50g. 44mm. UNC/UNC. 

Medalier: I. I. Reichel (signature on obverse: I. I. REICHEL. F.).

Hutten-Czapski 3437 (for prototype); Raczyński 613 (for prototype).

Obv.: Bust of Augustus III right, draped and cuirassed, with long hair tied behind.

Inscription around:

AVGVSTVS . III . ELECTOR . SAXONIAE .

(Augustus III, Elector of Saxony).

Rev.: Multi-line Latin inscription:

AVGVSTI II. / FILIVS, ELECTVS / A.D.1733. CORONATVS / A.D.1734. PIVS, MAN- / SVETVS, POLONIÆ, QVÆ / BONA OPTAVIT, RVPTIS / CONTINVO XII. / COMITIIS, IMPERTIRI / NEQVIVIT. / OBIIT DRESDÆ A.D. / 1763. ÆTAT: 67. R.30. / D.5. OCTOB:

(Son of Augustus II, elected in 1733, crowned in 1734; pious and gentle, he was unable to grant to Poland the good it desired, because twelve sejms were continually broken off; he died in Dresden in 1763, at the age of 67, in the 30th year of his reign, on 5 October).

Augustus III (1696-1763), son of Augustus II the Strong, was Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. His reign united Saxony, now part of Germany, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now chiefly Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, but in Poland his rule became associated with political paralysis caused by repeatedly disrupted sejms. He died in Dresden, Germany.