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3 Groats - Sigismund II Augustus Tykocin mint
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1565-1566 |
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| Reference(s) | Ig#V.65, Ig#V.66, Kop#3308, Kop#3309, Gum#623 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | QVI HABITAT IN COELIS IRRI DEBIT EOS 15 (_) 65 (Translation: Quote from Bible Psalm 2:4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs ... at them.) |
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Tykocin — a town in Podlachia rather than Lithuania proper — served as an emergency minting site during the 1560s when Sigismund II Augustus needed to accelerate silver coinage to fund ongoing military operations against Muscovy in the Livonian War. The mint operated under royal privilege out of the king's own castle there, one of his preferred residences, making this a genuinely personal monetary initiative rather than a bureaucratic one.
Production ceased after just two years, which accounts for the relative scarcity of the type compared to Vilnius issues of the same reign.