Typologically rare, first vintage of Ladislau thalers minted in the Thorn mint.
Varietywith the inscription ending RVS PR and with punctuation in the reverse legend.
Obverse: half-figure of the king, holding a sword and the royal orb, facing right
VLADIS IIII DG REX POL ET SVEC MD LIT RVS PRV
Reverse: Angel holding an oval cartouche with the coat of arms of the city of Thorn, on the sides the date and initials II of minmaster Jacob Jacobson
COIN NOVA ARGENT CIVIT THORVNENSIS
Diameter 44 mm, weight 28.81 g
During the reign of Ladislaus IV, there was a ban on minting small coins, passed under his predecessor. It included both state and city mints. Therefore, the crown mints in Bromberg, and then from 1644 in Krakow, minted only half-thalers, thalers, ducats and their multiples. The mint production of Prussian cities - Danzig, Thorn and Elbing - looked similar. The Lithuanian Mint was not working at that time. The exception was a probe 10 ducats coin minted in 1640. Probe series of 3 groschen, 6 groschen and 18 groschen was also prepared by the Bromberg mint in 1635. In addition to the above-mentioned issues, Władysław Vasa's coinage also includes kopecks bd from the times when Prince Władysław was elected Tsar of Moscow and three kreuzer Duchy of Oppeln-Rattibor from 1647.
