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Trzydukat elbląski - Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki Elbląg mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1672 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Mint | Elbląg Mint |
| Mintage | 1672 |
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Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki's reign was one of the most turbulent in Commonwealth history — elected in 1669 as a compromise candidate acceptable to neither the pro-French nor pro-Habsburg factions, he spent most of his rule fighting off attempts to dethrone him entirely. The Elbląg mint, operating under Prussian Royal municipal authority, issued this three-ducat piece in 1672, the same year the Ottoman offensive under Mehmed IV drove deep into Podolia and forced the humiliating Treaty of Buchach. The king died the following year, reportedly on the night before a planned counteroffensive.
Kop. 7151 is among the rarest gold multiples of this reign. Elbląg's output of high-denomination gold in this period was limited — the city's mint was far more prolific in silver — making any surviving example from this issue genuinely scarce rather than simply under-catalogued.