4 (FOUR) JOHANN CASIMIR COPPER SOLIDII____Goth & Vandal King____MEDIEVAL POLAND

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
4 BEAUTIFUL COPPER SOLIDII OF KING JOHANN II CASIMIR VASA OF POLAND FROM 1648 - 1668 AD .
TITLES: John Casimir, by God's grace King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and, Chernihiv; and also hereditary King of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals.
COINS ARE ABOUT 15-16 MM AND 1-2 GRAMS EACH
OBVERSE – Bust of Johann Casimir right, IOAN CAS REX
REVERSE - Eagle with a cross on shield on the breast, SOLID REG + POLO ("Solidus of the King of Poland") / SOLI MAG DVC LIT, Horseman riding left brandishing sword
Johan II Casimir Vasa, 1609 - 1672, Nevers, France, king of Poland (1648–68) and pretender to the Swedish throne, whose reign was marked by heavy losses of Polish territory incurred in wars against the Ukrainians, Tatars, Swedes, and Russians.
The second son of Sigismund III Vasa, king of Poland and of Sweden, John Casimir fought on the Habsburg side against France during the Thirty Years’ War from 1635 until, on his way to Spain to assume the office of admiral, he was arrested by the French and imprisoned for two years (1638–40). After his release he decided to forgo military life and became a Jesuit novice (1646), but he resigned his position a year later.
A few months after the death of his brother King Wladyslaw IV in May 1648, John Casimir was elected to the Polish throne and soon married Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, his brother’s widow.
John Casimir tried to end an insurrection of Poland’s semiautonomous Ukrainian Cossack subjects by negotiation but was forced to continue the war by Polish nobles who wished to increase their control over Ukraine. He defeated the Cossacks and their Tatar allies at Beresteczko June 28–30, 1651, but the fighting began anew when the Cossacks submitted themselves to the Russian tsar in return for military aid. While the Polish army was fighting on the eastern border of Poland, the Swedish army invaded from the west and occupied most of the country by October 1655.
John Casimir fled abroad but returned in 1656 when Polish peasants and gentry rebelled against Swedish control. At the conclusion of the war with Sweden in 1660, he had to renounce his rights to the Swedish throne and to northern Livonia. In January 1667 Poland signed the Truce of Andrusovo with Russia, whereby half of Belorussia (with Smolensk), Chernigov (modern Chernihiv, Ukraine), and all of Ukraine east of the Dnieper River, as well as Kiev, west of the river, were ceded to Russia. Disgusted with external warfare, facing a rebellion by the Diet, and in mourning after the death of his wife, the king abdicated (Sept. 16, 1668) and retired to France, where he served as titular abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés until his death in 1672.
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