Here is the closing bracket of the short, only two-year minting of pennies at the mint in Lublin.
The last penny in the history of this city, which for decades was erroneously described as a Poznan penny. Whose true attribution was restored by our expert Marcin Zmudzin.
The city of Lublin, despite being only a small point in the still ongoing, nearly 700-year-old history of the penny, has clearly made its mark in it. All thanks to the unique iconography of these coins. Both pennies with the bust of the king without a crown, the only early pennies of Sigismund III with a large crown on the obverse, or just this type, depicting a half-figure of the king with a scepter and sword, were minted in Lublin.
And just as in the case of the second type, directly referring to the iconography of the crown pennies of one of its predecessors, King Sigismund I the Old, we find a parallel in its minting. The depiction of a standing half-figure of the ruler, wearing a crown and armor, holding a long scepter and the hilt of a sword, known from the Torun sixpences. It is referred to as"rex armatus" - the warrior king.
The uniqueness of this issue is also due to the absence not only of the mintmarks, but above all the absence of the coat of arms of the Grand Treasurer of the Crown (at that time the Lewart coat of arms belonging to Jan Firlej). This is the only penny on which this absence was not a minting error, but an intention, as is evident from its absence on all stamps of this type.
A very nice, selected piece.
