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1/4 Talar - Karol X Gustaw Swedish Occupation
| Issuer | City of Elbing |
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| Year | 1658 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Square klippe flan with clipped corners. Within a raised inner circle, the crowned civic arms of Elbing — a shield bearing a cross above a diagonally hatched base, flanked by ornate supporters and surmounted by a crowned eagle displayed. The circular legend surrounding the arms reads MONETA.NOVA.CIVITATIS.ELBINGENSIS.1658, identifying this as a new coinage of the city of Elbing with the date of issue. |
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Elbing (now Elbląg, Poland) was a prosperous Hanseatic port that spent much of the seventeenth century caught between Swedish imperial ambition and Polish suzerainty. During the Second Northern War, Swedish forces under Karl X Gustav occupied the city, and Elbing was permitted — or compelled, depending on one's reading of the arrangement — to strike coinage acknowledging Swedish authority. This quarter taler belongs to that occupation series, produced under fiscal pressure as Swedish military campaigns drained regional resources.
Kopicki 9678 places it firmly within the documented Elbing municipal issues of the occupation period. The city's mint had a long tradition of autonomous striking, which the Swedes exploited rather than suppressed.