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Trojak gdański - August III Sas Gdańsk mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1760 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the Arms of Gdańsk (two crosses above a lion passant on a divided shield), encircled by a wreath or decorative border. A surrounding Latin legend runs along the octagonal periphery denoting the denomination and mint city. The design follows the civic coinage tradition of the Royal city of Gdańsk under Augustus III. |
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By 1760, the Gdańsk mint was operating under considerable strain. August III's reign had seen chronic debasement of the Commonwealth's coinage, and the trojak — a three-groszy piece with roots stretching back to Stefan Batory's monetary reforms of the 1580s — was by this point a shadow of its earlier silver standard. The Gdańsk issues retained marginally better quality than interior mint output, a function of the city's jealously guarded semi-autonomous status and its merchants' insistence on tradeable coin.
Kopicki 7739 is among the later die varieties of this type, struck just three years before August III's death ended the Saxon line's hold on the Polish throne.