Here is a numismatic piece absent from prominent Polish collections such as those of the Potocki family, Hutten-Czapski and the National Museum in Warsaw.
Edmund Kopicki knew it only from this one piece. From the collection of Kazimierz Zbichorski.
One-sided trial print of the reverse of the Kurland thyme. A denomination not realized in the form of a circulating coin!
Ernest Jan Biron, returning to Courland in 1763, actively began his minting activities. He minted a range of denominations from shekels to ducats in the first three years of his reign. The highest of these, today, are among the great rarities.
The Tymf was never put into circulation. Its obverse and double-sided prints are not known. In its place, orts were minted, coins with the same iconography, differing only in the denomination: 18(pennies) instead of 1 T(ymf). The inspiration for these fief issues can be found in Polish municipal minting, where both tymfs and orts of August III Sas were minted in Elblag during this period.
Knowledge of the plans for issuing tymphes has been preserved only through these one-sided proof prints.
The present one was made in pure silver, on a thin disc.
It is a beautifully preserved, one-piece value.
Offered for the first time at auction in Poland.
