Poland, Korzec, Porcelain Manufactory, substitute coin (token), 3 grosze, ca. turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Copper, 3.01 g, 21.7 mm.
Condition II-, minimal traces of corrosion, but the coin shows no signs of circulation and retains large areas of mint luster; only the second piece on the market
A very rare numismatic item, representing an example of so-called “dominal” (property) money, in exceptional condition. The Korec Manufactory (founded in 1783 by Prince Józef Klemens Czartoryski in Volhynia) was the first Polish factory to produce high-quality porcelain. In the late 18th or early 19th century, faced with a widespread shortage of small-denomination state coins in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the time, the owners of large estates and factories decided to issue their own local means of payment. Due to the turbulent history of the manufactory itself (which was destroyed by fire and later permanently closed in the first half of the 19th century) and the local nature of the issuance, very few pieces of these tokens have survived to this day.
