Russian Partition of Poland (lot) 1 Grosz and 10 Groszy 1835, 1840 Congress Poland Nicholas I - 1 grosz 1835 and 10 groszy 1840 - Warsaw M W

Congress Kingdom of Poland, lot of two coins from the reign of Nicholas I, both struck at the Polish mint in Warsaw.

Coin 1: 1 grosz 1835, copper. Obverse: crowned two headed eagle with the letters M W. Reverse: the value 1 GROSZ with the year in a wreath. Thirty grosz went to one złoty. References: C# 106, Gum# 2488, Numista N# 26812. For 1835, 541,687 pieces are recorded, a figure that covers the issue with the letters I P as well.

Coin 2: 10 groszy 1840, billon with a silver content of 192 parts per thousand. Obverse: the eagle, with a shield in a wreath on the breast and three small shields on the wings, together with the letters M W. Those letters stand for Mennica Warszawa, the mint of Warsaw. Reverse: the value 10 GROSZY with the year in a wreath. Ten groszy made one third of a złoty. References: C# 113a, KM# 113a, Gum# 2509, Fischer Po# 23, Numista N# 20511. For 1840, 60,789,229 pieces were made.

The Congress Kingdom of Poland was created in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna out of most of the former Duchy of Warsaw, in personal union with the Russian Empire. On paper it had a king of its own, but that king was the Russian tsar. After the uprising of 1830 and 1831 the country lost its separate standing and was effectively annexed to Russia. You can see that on these two coins. They carry the Russian eagle and not the Polish arms, because in those years Russia was replacing Polish eagles with the Russian double headed eagle. The złoty lasted until 1841, after which Poland moved to the Russian monetary system. So these are two coins from the last years of the Polish złoty, from the same mint city, in two different metals.

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