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| Condition: VF Mint Year: 1825 Reference: KM-94. Mint Place: Warsaw Denomination: 1 Grosz Ruler: Alexander I of Russia Mint Master: Jakub Benik (I-B, 1811-1827) Material: Copper Diameter: 20mm Weight: 2.75gm Obverse: Large crown above crowned double-headed Russian eagle holding imperial scepter and orb. Mint master´s initials (I-B) below. Reverse: Value (1) above denomination (GROSZ POLSKI) and date (1832). Legend: Z MIEDZI KRAIOWEY Congress Poland, officially and formally Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Królestwo Polskie, Russian: Tsarstvo Polskoye) and informally known as Russian Poland was a constitutional personal union of the Russian Empire created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, replaced by the Central Powers in 1915 with the Kingdom of Poland. Though officially Congress Poland was to begin its statehood with considerable official political autonomy, the Tsars generally disregarded any restrictions on their power and severely curtailed autonomous powers following uprisings in 1830-31 and 1863 turning it first into a puppet state of the Russian Empire and later dividing it into provinces. Thus from the start the Polish autonomy remained nothing more than fiction. |
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