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Grosz koronny - Sigismund III Vasa Lublin mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1597-1598 |
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| Weight | 1.6 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays a large royal crown in the upper field, rendered in the late Renaissance style with ornate scrollwork and pellet decoration. Beneath the crown, the royal titulature is inscribed in three lines across the field in bold Gothic-influenced lettering: SIGBIM3I / GREX PMD / L I [mint mark]. The legend abbreviates the king's full Latin title as Sigismundus III Dei Gratia Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniae. The Lublin mint mark appears in the lower portion of the field. The flan is slightly irregular, typical of hammered coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | SIGBIM3I GREX PMD L I |
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The Lublin mint operated only briefly under Sigismund III, its activity concentrated in the late 1590s before Warsaw and Bydgoszcz absorbed the bulk of royal coinage production. Lublin's issues from this window are distinguished by subtle but catalogued die variations — Kopicki's references 750 through 753 enumerate distinctions in the crown and legend execution that reflect the inconsistency of a provincial workshop under irregular supervision.
Sigismund III's monetary reforms of the 1590s were partly driven by the flood of debased foreign grosze crossing Commonwealth borders, particularly from Silesia and Prussia. Lublin's short-lived output sits squarely within that reform push.