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Talar koronny - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Bydgoszcz mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1650 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (1 Talar) (8) |
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| Reverse description | Crowned elaborate quartered royal arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at center, featuring the Polish eagle, Lithuanian Vytis, and the Vasa dynastic sheaf, within an ornate shield surmounted by a royal crown. The date 1650 appears in the upper field flanking the crown. A circular Latin legend surrounding the shield references the silver coinage of the city of Bydgoszcz. |
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| Reverse lettering | MON ARGENT CIVIT BIDGOSTIENS 1650 |
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Jan II Kazimierz had been king for barely a year when this talar was struck at Bydgoszcz, a mint that operated intermittently under lease arrangements with private minters — a common but administratively chaotic practice in the Commonwealth that made quality control deeply inconsistent. The 1650 emission preceded by just a year the Deluge, the catastrophic Swedish invasion that would destroy the Polish monetary system, scatter the mint infrastructure, and force the king himself into Silesian exile. Talars of this period circulated internationally as much as domestically, functioning in Baltic trade networks alongside Dutch leeuwendaalders and Hamburg issues.