Semi-talars from the Vasa era are markedly rarer coins than their full counterparts - thalers. They were minted in Bydgoszcz in two periods. The first, in the years 1620-1622, were so-called "light" semi-talars, as they represented the value of not 1/2 thaler, but 1/2 Polish zloty. Only 1628 brought a change. The mint managed by Jacobson began issuing coins equivalent to 1/2 of the Polish thaler. However, as Marian Gumowski points out, "the entrepreneur did not earn much on minting 1/2 thalers...", attributing this fact to their rarity today.
The first vintage of the minting of "heavy" semi-talars of Sigismund III.
Variety with ornamental labrums, described by Jan Dostych with a degree of rarity of R6.
A typologically sought-after, hard-to-find denomination.
