Półtalar elbląski - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Elbląg mint

Jan II Kazimierz's półtalar issues from Elbląg belong to a politically complicated moment: the city operated under Swedish protection following the Truce of Altmark (1629), yet Polish royal coinage continued to be struck there under license arrangements that satisfied neither Warsaw nor Stockholm entirely. By 1651 the king was already contending with the Khmelnytsky Uprising, and military expenditure was driving silver coinage production across every available mint in the Commonwealth.

Kop. 7117 is among the scarcer półtalar varieties attributed to this mint and year. The Elbląg mint's output was never large, and attrition through heavy wartime circulation has thinned the surviving population considerably.