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Talar koronny - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Wschowa mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1651-1652 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (1 Talar) (8) |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of King Jan II Kazimierz Waza facing right, wearing a laureate wreath and elaborately etched plate armor with pauldron detail visible at the shoulder truncation. The effigy is rendered in high relief in the baroque style characteristic of mid-17th-century Polish coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait, reading IO CASIMIR DG REX POL MD LR, abbreviated titles identifying the monarch as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. The field around the bust shows fine die work, and the coin is enclosed within a reeded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Jan II Kazimierz's early 1650s were catastrophic by almost any measure — the Khmelnytsky Uprising had gutted the Commonwealth's eastern territories, the treasury was depleted, and Swedish invasion was two years away. The Wschowa mint, operating under lease arrangements common to the period, was one of several provincial facilities pressed into talar production as royal finances buckled under sustained military expenditure.
The Kopicki references span three distinct die combinations, reflecting the mint's output across the two-year run rather than a single unified issue. Wschowa talers from this period are notably prone to die rust and uneven flan preparation — a product of the mint's secondary status relative to Bydgoszcz.