A rare variety with a colon at the end of the reverse legend and with PRVS at the end of the obverse.
Variety with small initials II of John Jacob Jacobson von Emden and with large date numerals.
A well-preserved thaler of Toruń of Ladislaus IV Vasa.
Excellent detail for this type of coin with a very good rendering of the angel in the coat of arms of Toruń. Background with lots of mint luster.
The last representative of thalers of the 1638 vintage.
Obverse: half-figure of a king in armor with a short sword resting on his shoulder and a royal apple in his hand, punctuation in the form of stars
VLADIS IIII D G REX POL ET SVEC M D L RVS PRS
Reverse: figure of an angel supporting an oval crest cartouche with the city's coat of arms "Brama", date on the sides, below initials I-I
COIN NOVA ARGENTEA CIVIT THORVNENSIS
Diameter 44 mm, weight 27.90 g
During the reign of Ladislaus IV, a ban on minting small coinage, enacted back in the days of his predecessor, was in effect. It covered both state and municipal mints. Thus, the crown mints in Bydgoszcz and then from 1644 in Cracow minted only half-talars, thalers, ducats and multiples thereof. The minting production of the Prussian cities of Gdansk, Toruń and Elblag was similar. The Lithuanian mint was not working at the time. An exception was a trial portugal minted in 1640. A trial series of trojaks, sixpences and orts was also prepared by the Bydgoszcz mint in 1635. In addition to the above-mentioned issues, the minting of Wladyslaw Vasa also includes kopecks b. d. from the time when Prince Wladyslaw was elected tsar of Moscow, and three-cracker coins of the Duchy of Opole-Racibor from 1647.
