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Trojak / 3 Grosze - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Wschowa mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1650 |
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| Reference(s) | Ig#W.50 |
| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Jan II Kazimierz Waza facing right, occupying the central field. The king is depicted with a laurel wreath and armored or draped shoulders in the baroque style typical of mid-17th-century Polish coinage. A beaded inner circle frames the effigy. The circular legend reads IO CASI D G REX POLO, abbreviating the royal titulature Ioannes Casimirus Dei Gratia Rex Poloniae. |
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| Obverse lettering | IO CASI D G REX POLO |
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The Wschowa (Fraustadt) mint operated under lease arrangements typical of seventeenth-century Polish monetary administration, where private contractors bore production costs in exchange for seigniorage profits. Jan II Kazimierz inherited a Commonwealth already strained by the catastrophic wars that would define his reign — the Cossack uprising under Khmelnytsky had erupted in 1648, and the Swedish Deluge was still five years away. This 1650 trojak sits in the narrow window between those two disasters.
Igielski's reference W.50 distinguishes the Wschowa output by die characteristics specific to that mint's contracted production run.