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| Emittent | Mint of Elbląg (Elbing) |
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| Jahr | 1651 |
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| Material | Silver |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Armored and draped bust of King John II Casimir Vasa facing right, wearing an elaborate crown and a richly decorated gorget with chain mail; the king's hair falls in long locks over his shoulders. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the Baroque manner typical of mid-17th-century Polish royal coinage. The circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, divided by the bust truncation, reading IOAN CASIM DG REX POL & SVEC MDL RVS PRV. The coin's broad field exhibits a fine granular texture, and the entire design is bordered by a toothed inner rim. |
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| Averslegende | IOAN CASIM DG REX POL & SVEC MDL RVS PRV |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Elbląg's mint operated under a peculiar arrangement by 1651: the city, though nominally under Polish suzerainty, had been under Swedish occupation and administration since 1626, ceded as a customs revenue pledge to Gustav II Adolf in exchange for military support during the wars with Brandenburg. Jan II Kazimierz's name on this talar therefore reflects a political fiction as much as a monetary reality — the city's trade revenues were still flowing to the Swedish crown as debt service, not to Warsaw.
The Elbląg mint was one of very few municipal operations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth permitted to strike full talers, a right jealously guarded by the city's merchant class.