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Dwutalar koronny - Stefan Batory Olkusz mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1580 |
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| Value | 2 Thalers (Dwutalar) (16) |
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| Obverse lettering | STEPHANVS D G REX POLONIÆ 1580. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Stefan Batory's double talar of 1580 from Olkusz was struck at a moment when the mint there was operating under considerable pressure — the king had dramatically reorganized royal minting operations in the late 1570s to fund his Livonian campaigns against Ivan the Terrible, and Olkusz, sitting atop the richest silver-bearing lead ore deposits in the Commonwealth, was a primary engine of that war financing. The campaigns succeeded; Pskov and Polotsk were taken.
Kop. 545 is among the rarer Olkusz double talar varieties of this reign. At 57 grams, these were never pocket change — they functioned as diplomatic and mercantile instruments, and survivors in honest circulated condition are considerably more typical than cabinet pieces.