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6 Groats - Sigismund II Augustus Wilno mint
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1547 |
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| Value | 6 Groats |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1547 |
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Sigismund II Augustus began issuing coinage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in his own name from 1545, while his father Sigismund I was still alive — an unusual arrangement reflecting the younger Augustus's formal coronation as Grand Duke in 1544. The Wilno mint was the primary Lithuanian striking facility throughout this period, and the six-groat denomination was a high-value workhorse of Baltic trade commerce in the mid-sixteenth century.
The .875 fineness held here would not survive the decade. Progressive debasement under fiscal pressures of the Livonian Wars eroded silver content significantly by the 1550s, making earlier issues from 1547 notably finer than their successors bearing the same face value.