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Pięciodukat gdański - Sigismund III Vasa Gdańsk mint
| Issuer | Gdańsk Mint |
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| Year | 1614 |
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| Reference(s) | Kop#(-) |
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| Obverse lettering | SIGISMVNDVS∙III∙D:G: REX∙POLONIÆ∙ MAG:DVX∙LIT:RVS∙PRVSSIÆ 1614 S.A. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The five-ducat pieces struck at Gdańsk under Sigismund III Vasa occupy an awkward position in Polish numismatics: too large for ordinary commerce, too politically charged to ignore. Gdańsk maintained extraordinary mint privileges throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, negotiating them directly with the Crown in exchange for the city's considerable financial contributions to royal campaigns. These multi-ducat issues were produced as presentation pieces and diplomatic gifts rather than circulating currency — a distinction that explains both their rarity and their survival rate in high condition.
The Kop(-) reference signals that Kopicki himself could not document a confirmed example, placing this 1614 emission among the genuinely unattributed rarities of the series.