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Dukat toruński - Władysław IV Waza Toruń mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1640-1648 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat |
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| Obverse description | Armored and crowned bust of Władysław IV Vasa facing right, wearing an elaborate royal crown and richly decorated plate armor with a lace collar visible at the neck. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail in the hair and regalia. A beaded inner circle frames the portrait, with the royal Latin legend disposed around the periphery within a toothed outer border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Władysław IV established the Toruń mint in 1630 primarily to service the Baltic trade economy, where gold ducats were the preferred settlement currency for Hanseatic and Dutch merchants operating along the Vistula grain corridor. The mint's output was never intended for domestic circulation in the conventional sense — these pieces moved through merchant hands, not peasant markets.
The five Kopicki references span individual dated varieties across the reign's final years, a span that ended with Władysław's death in May 1648 and the subsequent interregnum. The Toruń series is notably well-documented by Polish numismatic scholarship precisely because the mint's records survived better than those of Bydgoszcz or Wschowa.