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Szeląg - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Wilno mint
| Issuer | Wilno Mint (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) |
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| Year | 1653-1654 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the Vytis (Pahonia), the armoured knight on horseback charging to the left, serving as the heraldic emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The knight is depicted with a raised sword and shield, set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding Latin legend reads SOLIDVS M D LIT followed by the date 1653, identifying the denomination and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as the issuing authority. The overall style is consistent with the small-module billon schillings struck at the Wilno Mint during this period. |
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These szelągi were struck at the Wilno mint during one of the most fiscally desperate stretches of the Commonwealth's history — the treasury was chronically empty from the grinding cost of wars against Cossacks, Muscovy, and Sweden simultaneously pressing on multiple fronts. Billon coinage of this fineness was effectively a fiscal emergency measure, and the Wilno mint's output during 1653–54 was vast and often hurried.
Kop. 3584 and 3585 represent distinct die varieties documented by Kopicki, differing in legend punctuation and crown form — distinctions that matter to specialists but were invisible to the peasants and soldiers who spent them.