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Object

Crown Ort of John II Casimir

Information

Inventory no

MNS H/76

Department

Historical and Archaeological Department

Technique

embossing

Material

silver

Copyright classification

The facility is in the public domain
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Description

The crown order of John II Casimir is one of 108 coins that fortunately survived World War II and comes from the pre-war numismatic collection of the Sądecka Land Museum. The history of the presented coin is related to the Swedish Deluge.

In the second year of the Swedish invasion, King John Casimir, returning to the country, chose Lviv as his headquarters, which happened on February 10, 1656. Maintaining the large court that arrived with the king required funds, and ad hoc excise taxes were not sufficient for this purpose. On March 1, 1656, the king established a mint and for its needs church silver was confiscated from several dioceses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. According to the universal, the Lviv mint was to mint coins and coins until further notice, because at that time it was the only mint in Polish hands. Lviv coins differ from other crown coins of John Casimir, firstly, due to the poor artistic value of the stamps created by engravers who were not artists but ordinary craftsmen, secondly, the process of minting coins was carried out in a primitive way, at the beginning manually using a heavy hammer, and later the so-called a tower of trams (beams) from which, when a string was pulled, a hammer fell, minting a coin. The distinguishing feature of the presented crown medal is the signature of Joseph the Jew, the engraver of the Lviv mint from March 1 to October 1, 1656, placed on the royal collar - the Hebrew letter "j", thanks to which we obtain precise information about its dating.

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