One of the most interesting types of trojak in the entire minting of the Republic, which for decades was called a mockingbird.
This is a distinctive issue, the obverse of which is a passage from the second Psalm of David: QVI HABITAT IN COELIS IRRIDEBIT OES. The quote, which was translated as:"he who dwells in heaven will mock them". It was the reason for reading the nature of the issue as mocking.
The coin is still puzzling, against which myths have grown over the years. It was supposed to cause great outrage among the nobility, the clergy and even the dismissal of the mint's administrator Gabriel Tarla. Professor Boris Paszkiewicz believes that its origin is linked to preparations for the Polish-Lithuanian union, when in 1564 the king decided to link the casting of the Lithuanian throne with the election in Poland. In turn, the quotation from the psalm was intended as a declaration of the ruler's will as God's anointed, signed with his royal monogram.
The first ever trojak of the Tykocin mint.
Variant with obverse legend ending in DVX L.
Variant with balls above the crown of the monogram.
