1754, Poland, August III "the Saxon". Silver 18 Groszy (Tympf) Coin. R!

Mint Year: 1754
Mint Place: Leipzig
Denomination: 18 Groszy (Tympf)
Mint Master: Ernst Dietrich Croll (EC, 1753-1763)
Reference: Gumowski 2158, Kopicki 2111, KM-148.2. R!
Condition: Sharp-cleaned (hairlines), rusty depostis in reverse, otherwise about XF!
Diameter: 28mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 5.85gm

Obverse: Crowned, draped and armored bust of Augustus III right.
Legend: D.G.AVGVSTVS.III.REX.POOLONIARUM

Reverse: Crowned quartered shield of poland, with a small shield of Saxony in the middle.
Value (18) below, flanked by mint master´s initials (E-C).
Legend: SAC.ROM.IMP.ARCHIM.ET ELECT.1754

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Augustus III, known as the Saxon Polish: August III Sas; German: August III. von Polen; also Prince-elector Friedrich August II (Dresden, 17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763 in Dresden) was the Elector of Saxony in 1733-1763, as Frederick Augustus II (German: Kurfürst Friedrich August II.), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1734-1763.

Augustus was the only legitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, Imperial Prince-Elector of Saxony and monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, by his wife, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. He was groomed to succeed his father as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and thus, in 1712, converted to Catholicism. This was publicly announced in 1717, to furor among the nobility in his native Saxony.

After his father's death, he inherited Saxony and was elected King of Poland, with the support of Russian and Austrian military forces in the War of the Polish Succession (1733–1738). As King, Augustus III was uninterested in the affairs of his Polish–Lithuanian dominion, focusing on interests like hunting, opera and collecting paintings (see Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister). During his 30-year reign, he spent less than a total of three years in Poland, where the struggle between the House of Czartoryski and the Potocki paralysed the Sejm (Liberum Veto), fostering internal political anarchy and further weakening the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Augustus III delegated most of his powers and responsibilities to Heinrich von Brühl, who became quasi-dictator of Poland.

The thirty years of Augustus III's reign saw the Seven Years' War (1754 and 1756–1763) among them. In 1733, the Saxon composer Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated the Kyrie and Gloria (of what would later become his Mass in B Minor) to Augustus in honor of his succession to the Saxon electorate.

His eldest surviving son, Frederick Christian, eventually succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony, but not as King of Poland. It was Stanisław August Poniatowski, who was elected King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, after a coup d'état by the House of Czartoryski, supported by Russian troops on 7 September 1764.

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