An extremely interesting and very rare piece with a deficient numeral 7 in the date, probably due to a clogged stamp.
Variety with a medium portrait of Jesus, Christ's head coincides with the hem line.
Variant without punctuation at the beginning and end of legends.
Poland's first siege coin. An early penny, minted when Kacper Goebl was the mintmaster.
In 1576 Danzig refused to pay tribute to the new Polish king Stefan Batory, which became the cause of the city's armed conflict with the Republic, during which the Polish army besieged Danzig. During the siege, the city council, decided to mint its own coinage. As a result, a mint was launched in 1577, which had been closed since 1559 and operated only briefly in 1573 during the interregnum.
Management of the mint was entrusted to Kacper Goebl, who was removed from his post after only two months due to reports that he was minting more thalers than he was paying into the coffers, and minting pennies of inferior quality exposing the city to very heavy losses. Goebl was only responsible for minting silver coinage, as the council entrusted the minting of gold coinage to Italian Gracjan Gonzalo on August 31, 1577. After Goebl was removed, he was succeeded by Walter Tallemann of Lübeck, who managed the mint until the end of the siege. Coins minted by Tallemann have as their minting mark a bird called the Kawka. After the siege ended, incomplete coins were ordered to be withdrawn from the market by the end of 1578 and replaced with good ones.
