A very rare thaler from an interesting first year mintage.
The only one without the initials of the mint manager and with a bust of the king in decorated armor covered with a robe.
Torun continued to mint a large coin after Jan Kazimierz was elected king of Poland. For the first thalers it used the reverse stamp from the time of Ladislaus IV (changing the numeral 8 to 9, leaving the initials G-R - Gerhard Rogge). In April 1649, the city signed a contract with Hans David Lauer. He minted the first thalers using the old method, the kaffir method, putting his mark (star) on them, but without the initials (as the present art). It was not until later that he started the "rolling mill" from which the last type of this king's Torun thalers came - with the ruler in armor and the initials HDL.
The first two types are also distinguished by the royal portrait - "Danzig", as Rogge was also the head of the Danzig mint, with the ruler girt in a cloak, without the shoulder of armor like the subsequent thalers.
The coin is found very rarely in trade.
