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2 Deniers - Vytautas Lutsk

Issuer Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Year 1401-1413
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse description The Columns of Gediminas (Gediminaičių stulpai) rendered in double-line style occupies the central field, depicted as a stylised architectural symbol with three vertical shafts surmounted by a crossbar and finials. The device is enclosed within a dotted inner circle, itself surrounded by a beaded outer border running along the coin's irregular circumference. The execution is characteristic of early 15th-century Lithuanian hammered coinage, with bold, deeply struck lines typical of the Lutsk workshop.
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Vytautas the Great struck these small silver coins at Lutsk during a period when he held the city as a major administrative center in Volhynia — territory he controlled directly following decades of conflict with his cousin Jogaila over supremacy in the Grand Duchy. The Lutsk mint operated under Vytautas's personal authority rather than any central Lithuanian issuing body, reflecting how decentralized monetary production remained across his domains.

The Huletski reference places this among a tightly catalogued series of Lithuanian denier types that were only systematically attributed in the post-Soviet scholarship of the 1990s and 2000s.