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Półtalar koronny - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Kraków mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1649 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IOCASIMIS DG REX PO · LA · RAVS · MA · R · |
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Jan Kazimierz's accession in 1648 coincided almost precisely with the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Cossack rebellion that would bleed the Commonwealth for years and strain its treasury severely. The 1649 Kraków półtalar was struck during the opening phase of that catastrophe, before the full fiscal weight of sustained war had forced the debasements that mark later issues in his reign.
Kopicki 1802 is among the scarcer półtalar types of the period. The Kraków mint's output was never high relative to Bydgoszcz or Wschowa, and attribution to specific dies within this reference remains contested among Polish specialists.