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Trzydukat gdański - Jan II Kazimierz Waza Gdańsk mint
| Issuer | Gdańsk Mint |
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| Year | 1649-1668 |
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| Diameter | 34 mm |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Gdańsk Mint (Danzig) |
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The "trzydukat" — a triple ducat struck at Gdańsk — was not a denomination in any administrative sense but a prestige piece, produced on special commission to mark diplomatic occasions, royal visits, or as gifts of state. Gdańsk, enjoying considerable autonomy as a royal city, maintained its own mint with exceptional technical capacity, and its gold strikings from the mid-seventeenth century are consistently among the finest produced anywhere in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Jan II Kazimierz's reign was defined by catastrophe: the Swedish invasion known as the Potop began in 1655, and Gdańsk was one of the few major cities that refused to capitulate.