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1 Ducat Siege coinage, countermarked
| Issuer | City of Danzig (Gdańsk) |
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| Year | 1577 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Danzig held out against Stefan Batory's siege for months in 1577, refusing to recognize his election as King of Poland without guaranteed city privileges. To fund its defense — mercenaries, fortifications, emergency provisions — the city issued its own coinage under municipal authority, a direct assertion of financial independence from a crown it had not yet accepted. The countermark on this piece authenticated it for local circulation during the blockade, distinguishing city-sanctioned gold from foreign ducats that were flooding the market as the siege dragged on.
Batory never took the city by force. Danzig negotiated its terms.