A very attractive piece that definitely stands out among the one-grosz coins of Galicia and Lodomeria—a denomination that is clearly harder to find in beautiful condition.
This is an issue intended for the troops stationed in Galicia, about which Karol Plage wrote as follows:
In 1794, when a general national uprising broke out in Poland under the leadership of Kościuszko with the aim of freeing the country from foreign influence, the Germans, fearing for their territories separated from Poland, gathered military forces in those provinces while simultaneously courting the Poles. Desiring to demonstrate their supposedly cordial feelings toward them, they ordered the minting of a special coin for Galicia and Lodomeria —one-grosz and three-grosz coins, previously unknown in Germany—fully conforming not only to the Polish mint standard but even marking the value of the Polish grosz directly on the coin itself: GROS(sus) POL(onicus)...
A coin from the outstanding contemporary collection of Zbiór.com, illustrated on its website.
