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Trojak / 3 Grosze - Sigismund III Vasa Malbork, ring and triangle
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1592-1594 |
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| Value | 3 Groschens (Trojak) (0.1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | III GROS ARG TRIP REG POLONI (ring)93(triangle) (Translation: Silver triple grossus of the Kingdom of Poland) |
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Sigismund III Vasa inherited a mint at Malbork (Marienburg) that had been striking trojaki continuously since the 1580s, but the 1592–1594 issues are distinguished by the ring and triangle mintmaster's marks belonging to Balcer Geometric — a period when the Commonwealth's small-denomination silver was under constant strain from widespread counterfeiting operations centered in Silesia and the Imperial cities. The Malbork facility was one of the few royal mints actively trying to maintain consistent fineness when private and foreign imitations flooded Baltic trade routes.