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Półtalar - Karol X Gustaw Swedish Occupation
| Issuer | City of Elbing (Elbląg) Mint |
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| Year | 1657 |
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| Value | Półtalar = 1/2 Tarar = 521/2 Groszy |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Karl X Gustav of Sweden facing right, wearing a crown, enclosed within a circular beaded border. The surrounding legend reads REX CAROLUS D G SUECIAE in Latin characters. The portrait is rendered in a bold baroque style characteristic of mid-17th century German and Polish-Prussian minting traditions. The entire design is struck on a square klippe flan oriented as a diamond. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Elbing was a Hanseatic city that passed under Swedish military occupation during the First Northern War, and its mint operated under Swedish authority from 1655. These półtalar pieces were struck in the name of Karl X Gustav as occupying sovereign — not as a Polish royal issue — making them an administrative artifact of Swedish wartime monetary control over a Prussian city that would revert to Polish suzerainty under the Treaty of Wehlau just months after this coin was struck.
Kopicki 9674 is among the scarcer dated varieties of the Elbing Swedish occupation series.