Rare variety with double lion's tails, with additional branches under the palm fronds.
Issue with a characteristic and rare royal portrait of a later type, also occurring in the 1650 vintage, minted at the Danzig mint under the management of Gerhard Rogge, with his initials G-R under the lions.
The first vintage of Danzig ducats of John II Casimir, minted in the year of his coronation as king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Mount removed. Bent.
Obverse: in the inner rim, bust of the king in a crown, facing right, with the Order of the Golden Fleece on the chest
IOAN CAS•D•G•R•POL•& SUEC•M•D•L•R•P•
Reverse: in the inner rim, the crowned coat of arms of Danzig in an oval cartouche supported by two lions, above a branch in a wreath, between the lions' paws the initials of G-R Gerhard Rogge, tenant of the Danzig mint in the years 1649-1656
MON:AUREA CIVITATIS GEDANEN:1649
Diameter 25 mm, weight 3.44 g
