The first Polish shellac!
A very rare coin with a characteristic reverse depicting the city's coat of arms - a city wall with a gate and three towers.
The first Polish coin of Toruń, the issuance of which began with the Thirteen Years' War. It was fought between the state of the Teutonic Order and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland between 1454-1466.
The coin is unique in its type, as discussed in more detail by Dariusz Marzęta during the GNDM Lecture Session (to watch on our Youtube). The only one with such iconography, where the obverse was an eagle with a crown on its chest, but without an armed sword, and the reverse was the city's coat of arms. Of a value that the Polish circulating shekel never had again later.
Issued between 1454 and 1466, it was struck in fine silver. Successively caught out of circulation and melted down to be punched for the city shekels introduced already three years later, from a clearly lower grade of silver, which led to the fact that today it belongs to very rare coins.
Very nicely preserved. With natural mint luster.
Silver, diameter 21 mm, weight 1.59 g.
