A beautiful piece of rare siege coinage.
After Caspar Goebel flees from Danzig, his duties are taken over by Walter Talleman. Forced to organize a new mint, not having such a workshop as his predecessor, he returns to the traditional method of coin production - stamp minting. And it is this inferior and slower minting technique, poor bullion and deteriorating conditions that today the pennies of Talleman's time are encountered noticeably less frequently, and the coins themselves bear numerous minting defects.
The present piece stands out against their background. It's a coin with a beautiful background mirror unprecedented for them. Good minting quality and depth. A nice patina.
A variety with the Kawka (Tallemen's mint mark) placed on the obverse, and the portrait of Jesus smaller, in a double border.
In December 1577, after unsuccessful attempts to conquer the city, King Stefan succumbs. Gdansk remains unconquered, and successful mediation leads to an agreement. With the end of the siege, an order is issued to withdraw the undervalued siege money from circulation, which says to replace it with good coin by the end of 1578.
A rarity in this state of preservation.
