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2 Denars - Sigismund II August
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1550-1570 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Reverse description | The Vytis (Chaser), the traditional mounted knight emblem of Lithuania, depicted in left-facing profile as an armoured equestrian figure on a prancing horse. The knight raises a sword aloft in his right hand and bears a crescent-shaped shield on his left arm. The horse is shown in a dynamic, rearing pose with a flowing mane. Beneath the horse, in the lower field of the coin, the Roman numeral II denotes the denomination of 2 denars. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sigismund II August inherited the Grand Duchy of Lithuania separately from the Polish Crown and maintained distinct coinage for each — a deliberate assertion of dual sovereignty during decades of pressure toward full dynastic union. These small billon denars circulated alongside the Polish equivalent but were struck specifically for Lithuanian markets, a distinction that would become moot after the 1569 Union of Lublin formally merged the two states into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Lithuanian series effectively ended with that political absorption.
The Kopicki reference spans six varieties (3223–3228), distinguished primarily by mint mark placement and die alignment details.