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Dukat koronny - Stefan Batory Olkusz mint
| Issuer | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1580 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | STEPHAN · D : G · REX · POLON |
| Reverse description | Central composite arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, comprising the Polish eagle and Lithuanian Pursuer (Pahonia) in a quartered shield surmounted by a royal crown. The shield is flanked by heraldic supporters and rests above the Batory family device. The date 80 (for 1580) appears in the upper legend. All devices are contained within a beaded inner circle, with the abbreviated Latin titulature of the king's dominions distributed around the outer legend. |
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Stefan Batory reopened the Olkusz mint in 1579 specifically to process silver from the nearby Olkusz mines, but the facility also struck gold during this period under tight royal supervision. The 1580 Olkusz dukat sits outside the main Kopicki reference sequence entirely — the Kop(-) designation signals not a gap in the catalog but an attribution that remains contested or unconfirmed in the standard Polish numismatic literature.
Batory's ducats from provincial mints consistently turn up in smaller survivor populations than their Gdańsk or Kraków counterparts, a reflection of lower original mintage rather than attrition.