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Trojak / 3 Grosze - Sigismund III Vasa Olkusz mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1590-1591 |
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| Weight | 2.01 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Olkusz mint had a troubled history by the time these trojaki were struck. Located near the major silver-producing mines of Lesser Poland, it was periodically suspended and reopened depending on ore yields and crown finances — the early 1590s represented one of its active windows under Sigismund III, who had only recently secured the Polish throne in 1587 after a contested election that nearly triggered full-scale war with the Habsburg-backed claimant Maximilian. That political instability pushed the crown to maximize domestic minting output wherever operational infrastructure already existed.
Olkusz trojaki from this short window are scarcer than their Poznań or Bydgoszcz counterparts.