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Talar koronny - Stefan Batory Olkusz mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1580 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stefan Batory's thaler series from the Olkusz mint is inseparable from the politics of that mint's existence. Olkusz was chosen precisely because its nearby silver deposits — mined since the medieval period — gave the Commonwealth a domestic bullion source independent of imported metal. Batory pushed aggressively to expand Polish minting capacity during his wars with Muscovy, and the Olkusz facility bore much of that pressure through the late 1570s and into 1580.
Kop#553 and #554 represent distinct die variants catalogued by Kopicki, most likely differentiated by punctuation or legend arrangement — a common source of multiplication in this series given the number of working dies in simultaneous use.