This coin is commonly referred to as "mocking" due to the use on its reverse of a quote from a Psalm of David: QVI HABITAT IN COELIS IRRIDEBIT OES. The quotation has been translated as: “He who dwells in heaven will mock them.” This quotation is said to have provoked outrage among the nobility and led to the dismissal of the mint master in Tykocin, Gabriel Tarła.
Recently, B. Paszkiewicz proposed an interpretation of the quotation as a declaration of the king’s will linked to preparations for the Polish–Lithuanian union.
A variant ending with the legend “LIT.”
