Półtalar - Karol X Gustaw Swedish Occupation

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.