In 1706, after years of war, August II the Strong is forced to abdicate after fearing the complete conquest of the Electorate of Saxony by the Swedes. He relinquishes the Polish crown to Stanislaw Leszczynski. And a small testimony to these events are the sixpences of that year, divided into two issues. A regular one, minted at the Leipzig mint while Augustus was still in control of Poland, and a later one, minted in Moscow, when he was struggling to regain power.
Rarity.
It is not only the type with the initials EP-H, noticeably rarer than the sixpences of the "Weeping People," but also a variety with an error in the denomination (IV instead of VI).
In Ivanauskas, it is described as very rare (-RRR-), with attribution to the Moscow mint (like the Weeping People, due to their stylistic similarity). In Kahnt, noted only from the collection of the Dresden Museum.
