Queen Bona expanded the castle after Mazovia passed to the Polish Crown in 1526. Swedish forces badly damaged it in the 1650s, about three decades after this coin left the mint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A close match from E\u0142k<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Numismatist Grzegorz \u015anie\u017cko has published a catalog of a 17th-century hoard from E\u0142k<\/a>, a separate find in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Entry 386 records a silver 1624 K\u00f6nigsberg p\u00f3\u0142torak. It measures 19 millimeters (about 0.75 inch) across and weighs 1.01 grams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coins from that year carry an electoral hat above a quartered shield. The eagles of Brandenburg and Ducal Prussia appear among its arms, and an abbreviated Latin title runs around the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n In German these coins were called dreip\u00f6lker, and \u015anie\u017cko writes that their dies imitated Polish coins of the same denomination. His catalog lists Ducal Prussia as a fief of the Polish Kingdom. George William ruled it from 1619 to 1640.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody has published that level of detail for the Czersk piece. The E\u0142k entry therefore shows the type and leaves the boy’s coin undescribed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How long did a coin like this stay in use? \u015anie\u017cko studied 722 coins from E\u0142k, and 719 of them came out of the ground in 2020. He assigned 684 to the hoard itself, with Ducal Prussian money as its third-largest group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The youngest securely dated coins come from 1655, and he concludes that “it is likely that this is when the hoard was actually hidden.” Because the hoard included p\u00f3\u0142toraks from 1624, somebody was still keeping that issue 31 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Czersk, the date on the coin marks only the earliest moment it could have reached the castle. It may have been dropped in the 1620s or a generation later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Archaeologists face a similar gap with Viking silver buried in Denmark<\/a> and 45 Roman coins on Sweden’s Gotland<\/a>. Geography adds a further caution here. \u015anie\u017cko describes Prussian coins as local money for E\u0142k, while Czersk lay in Mazovia, so the hoard cannot explain this coin’s journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview on the castle’s website<\/a>, archaeologist Przemys\u0142aw Urba\u0144czyk described repeated deliveries of soil to enlarge the hill. Those additions complicated the site’s stratigraphy, the layered sequence that reveals the order of past activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing in the announcement places the boy’s coin in that imported earth. Even so, Urba\u0144czyk’s account shows why a find spot at Czersk needs careful recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hill’s relationship with the Vistula also remains unsettled. A 15th-century grain barge turned up in a small fishing pond below the castle, which Urba\u0144czyk reads as evidence of the river. Geological studies are still needed to establish when it moved away, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That timing bears on the town’s fate. The castle’s history links its fall in status to political changes and the loss of a direct river connection. In Urba\u0144czyk’s words, translated from Polish, “We still do not know whether Czersk actually fell because the Vistula moved away, or whether it was a political decision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conservator’s post does not say where on the grounds the boy saw the coin. It also omits the day of the find, the coin’s condition and who holds it now. No collector’s value appears, and 1.5 groszy has no simple equivalent in today’s dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being issued under George William does not connect the coin to him personally. The announcement names no owner, purchase or event at the castle. Like the tradesmen in a parchment hidden in a Polish pulpit<\/a>, its user belonged to an everyday world that records tend to skip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The office added that the young visitor’s find shows history “sometimes waits right beneath our feet” (translated from Polish). The full announcement is on the Mazovian conservator’s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image: Zamek Ksi\u0105\u017c\u0105t Mazowieckich w Czersku<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A nine-year-old boy visiting Czersk Castle, south of Warsaw, found a silver coin struck in 1624. The office of the … <\/p>\n![\"Silver](\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/konigsberg-coins-elk.jpg\")
Still being saved in 1655<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Imported soil on Castle Hill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
No find spot on record<\/h2>\n\n\n\n