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Dziesięciodukat pruski / 10 Ducats - Sigismund I the Old Toruń mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Poland |
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| Year | 1533-1540 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Toruń mint operated under a royal privilege that placed it among the most technically capable in the Polish-Flemish minting tradition, and the ten-ducat multiple was never a circulation piece — it was struck for diplomatic presentation, almost certainly destined for the courts of the Habsburgs or the Hohenzollerns as a demonstration of Polish royal prestige during a period of intense geopolitical maneuvering over Ducal Prussia. Sigismund had extracted the Prussian homage from Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1525, and these heavyweight gold multiples belong to the decade immediately following that settlement.
Kopicki records at least two die variants within this issue, catalogued separately as 442 and 444.