A very nice piece of coinage. Patina, tarnish.
A tremendously rare Poznan three-coin minted during the brief mint supervision of Thomas Schmidl.
The coin, due to its appearance, is sometimes erroneously attributed to the Cracow mint, an origin refuted by Marian Gumowski (Municipal Coinage in Poznań, Wielkopolska Museum Yearbook IV, 1928), and more recently by Tomasz Poniewierka (Municipal Mint in Poznań over the course of centuries, Warsaw Numismatic Diary Volume 6, 2018).
Obverse: crowned royal initial with the Snopes coat of arms of the Vasa dynasty in the center, on the sides of the crown two five-petal rosettes, on the sides of the initial the date 16-22;
Reverse: crowned escutcheons with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Snopes of the Vasa dynasty, on the sides of the crown two five-petal rosettes;
