A coin with pronounced scarcity, yet with beautiful freshness and relief at the minting point, especially the reverse. Well reflecting the reality of this issue, during the war rush.
A variety described by Igor Shatalin with a degree of rarity of R5.
Distinguished by the obverse legend ending in 8, SVHC error on the reverse and eagles of the second variant (large, with simplified feathers).
The history of this issue begins after the heroic defense of Lviv against the besieging Moscow and Cossack armies. At a time when more cities of the Crown fell under the onslaught of the Swedes, it was victorious Lviv that became the destination of King John Casimir. Having reached the city in February, he issued a universal order to open a mint as early as March 1, 1656, out of the need to pay the troops. The silver for the issuance of coins (orts and sixpences) was obtained from seized silver from church treasuries, beginning the minting of coins on May 15 and ending just 37 weeks later!
The coins minted at the time are characterized by poor workmanship, which is typical of wartime issues. The workshop organized in Lviv did not employ mincmasters, but city craftsmen. Coins were minted using the old method, stamps were cut by hand, in a hurry, hence their great variety. These factors translated into rather poor legibility and poor state of preservation of the pieces circulating in the trade. Usually these coins are severely deficient, crookedly minted or with doubled minting, produced from defective sheet metal.
