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Talar koronny - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Kraków mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1649 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (1 Talar) (8) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ⋆ IOANNES . CASIMIR D G · REX · POLON · MAG · DVX · LIT · RVS · PRVS · M : S : L (Translation: John Casimir, by the grace of God, king of Poland, grand duke of Lithuania, Russia, Prussia, Mazovia, Smolensk, and Livonia.) |
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Jan II Kazimierz ascended to the Polish throne in 1648, the same year the Cossack-led Khmelnytsky Uprising shattered Commonwealth control over much of Ukraine and triggered a cascade of wars that would consume the next decade. The 1649 talar was struck in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Zborów, where a negotiated settlement — the Treaty of Zborów — temporarily halted the conflict but satisfied almost no one. The Kraków mint was one of the few operating with any reliability during this period of severe fiscal and military strain.
The multiple Kop references suggest this date encompasses several die marriages, a routine consequence of high-volume emergency production at Kraków under chaotic supply conditions.