One of the most typologically important coins for the perception of the activity of the Poznan mint in the second half of the reign of Sigismund III.
High rarity of the 1616 three-cornered coin with the keys of the city instead of the shield with the Pogo.
The type is described on the blog CoinsCityPoznan:
"In 1616, putting into practice his idea of multiplying profits from the mint, Rudolf Lehmann complicated everything so much that 19th-century numismatists took for granted the closure of the city mint in Poznan from 1617 to 1624. Their successors, using the "copy-paste" method, reproduced this erroneous reasoning in their catalogs, and the major auction houses followed suit by attributing ternars from 1617 to 1624 to the crown mint in Krakow, although they were minted at the Poznan city mint.
The method is to make them similar to the crown coin. First by creating an intermediate type - with the Keys in the shield (like the present piece), to then replace the Keys with the Pogo, creating a coin that opens "wide open access to the whole country."
Coin present in our auctions for the first time.
No listing in the Onebid archive.
A very nicely minted, well-preserved piece.
