The first and only Polish wide double coin intended for circulation!
Unique against the background of the domestic minting industry issuance of such a wide and heavy coin as a means of payment. Before it was minted, Polish numismatics already knew coins weighing multiples of a thaler, but these were commemorative / occasional issues, or simply multiples minted with one-thaler stamps.
Not surprisingly, the mint that minted it is Gdansk. As Tadeusz Kalkowski wrote,"Thalers were an indispensable means of payment in foreign trade, centered in Gdansk, where cloth, roots and other Western goods came by sea."
A compositionally beautiful coin from the period of Gerhard Rogge's mint administration.
Already valued and sought after typologically for years, as evidenced by the auction of Chelminski's collection, where in 1904 the two-coin sold for 125 marks in gold (lot.871).
It is one of the few two-coalars we have seen that does not have a disc crack. However, the lower pressure of the stamps also resulted in a shallower minting in this case, as can be seen by the flat lion heads and the incidental royal apple and the king's right hand on the reverse. A slightly circulated coin, with a pleasant, glossy surface glow retained. Attractive, given its striking size.
On the rim a punca, most likely collector's, of an unknown collection.
