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John II Casimir, Schilling Fraustadt 1650 - RARE

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Grade: F/VF
Reference: Kopicki 1539 (R3)

Rare coin.

Variant with an ox's head separating the date and leaves to the right and left. Variant with POLONI on the reverse.

Piece with a hole.


Ryszard Kozlowski in his book "Wschowa Minting" writes about this issue as follows: "The shillings were copper coins, counted 4 pieces per penny. They had a value of 1/120 of a zloty. Between 1650 and 1654 they weighed 2.6 grams each and were usually 22 mm in diameter. Several types of shekels were issued in Wschowa only in 1650. They had crowned royal initials I(oannes) C(asimirus) R(ex) written in ligature on the obverse, and coats of arms below them - Snopek (of the Vasa family) or Wieniawa (of the treasurer B. Leszczyński). More iconographically diverse were the reverse types. One contained an inscription in three lines: Solidus Regni Poloniae (the shekel of the Kingdom of Poland) in various abbreviated variants, with the date and the Wieniawa coat of arms below it. The second type of coin featured a centrally placed eagle on the reverse with a crowned head pointing to the right, with wings raised high, and the Vasa coat of arms, Snopek, minted on the chest. Around it was placed the otolithic inscription Solidus Regni Poloniae."

At the beginning of the reign of Jan Kazimierz, an ambitious attempt at monetary reform took place (1650). A ban on the circulation of foreign money was introduced and the issuance of good own money began. It was then that copper shekels (wide) first appeared. The assumptions of the reform proved unrealistic so it was quickly withdrawn. Meanwhile, in Lithuania, which did not feel obliged to implement the 1650 reform (its representatives did not participate in the work of the commission), a parallel reform was introduced, based on other principles. In view of the Moscow invasion, the Vilnius mint worked only in 1652-1653. In turn, under the conditions of the Swedish Deluge, an important episode in the history of Polish minting was the launch of a makeshift crown mint in Lviv (1656-1657). The monetary relations of the Commonwealth tried to put in order the ordinance of 1658. The most notable for the period of the reign of Jan Kazimierz were the issues of subvalue money: small copper crown and Lithuanian shekels (so-called boratins) minted in the number of about 2 billion pieces, and zlotys (so-called tymfs), with an official value of 30 pennies - more than twice the actual silver content of the coin. Of the municipal mints in the period in question, there were mints in Gdansk, Elblag and Torun. John Casimir also exercised his minting rights as Prince of Opole and Racibórz (three-carat coins were minted at the Opole mint).

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