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Dukat koronny - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Kraków mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1649 |
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| Weight | 3.49 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jan II Kazimierz had been king for less than a year when this ducat was struck — he acceded in November 1648, months after the catastrophic defeat at Batih and amid the full eruption of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, which would drain the Commonwealth's treasury and manpower for the better part of a decade. That the Kraków mint produced gold coinage at all in 1649 reflects the brief administrative continuity of the early reign rather than any fiscal stability.
Kopicki 1849 is a recognized rarity in the ducats of this reign. The Thirty Years' War had already disrupted regional gold flows, and wartime mintage figures for Kraków in this period were consistently low.