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Dukat gdański - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Gdańsk mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1661 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central shield bearing the crowned arms of Gdańsk — two crosses above a lion passant — flanked by two lions rampant as supporters, all set within an ornate baroque cartouche. The date 1661 appears in the lower field beneath the shield. A circular Latin legend surrounds the entire device, identifying this as gold coinage of the city of Gdańsk. The overall design reflects the civic pride and artistic refinement characteristic of Gdańsk municipal gold coinage of the period. |
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Danzig operated under a municipal minting privilege that gave the city's mint considerable autonomy within the Commonwealth, and by 1661 that arrangement was under strain. The Second Northern War had ended only the year prior with the Treaty of Oliva, and Jan II Kazimierz had spent much of the previous decade watching Swedish forces occupy the Polish heartland while Danzig — never taken — became one of the few functioning financial centers in the kingdom.
Kop. 7665 is among the better-documented die marriages for this year's Danzig ducat output, catalogued by Kopicki with enough surviving examples to establish baseline rarity without tipping into genuine scarcity.