Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (2.1997)

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KRAKÓW 1997

EUGENIJUS IVANAUSKAS
Kaunas

PRODUCE OF TYKOCIN MINT

According to historiographically established opinion, the mint of Ty-
kocin operated only in 1566, it manufactured Lithuanian coins with the
coat of arms of voivode of Kraków Stanislaw Myszkowski (fig. I)1. This
article presents evidence proving the falseness of this opinion.

Sources on the activities of Tykocin mint are very scanty. We have already
mentioned coins. With reference to written sources, evidence found by Krzysz-
tof Filipow should be mentioned2. In 1564, deputy elder of Tykocin Florian
Lobeski (? - 1585) got 6 wlok of land in Siekierki and 2 wlok in town in
exchange for the house in Tykocin alotted for the mint. The building of the
mint was near the old market place. Furthermore, in 1571 the mint lot was
exempted from taxes. The said voivode is known to have concluded an agree-
ment with the king in 1565 to strike 24000 Kraków silver marks to coins3 *. In

1 M. Gumowski, Mennica wileńska w XVI i XVII wieku, Warszawa 1921

2 K. Filipow, Lokalizacja mennicy w Tykocinie, BN, 1982, no 10. Idem, Białostocki Nu-
mizmatyk, Białystok 1983, pp. 9-11

3 W. Schwinkowski, Das Geldwessen in Preussen under Herzog Albrecht (1525-1569),

Zeitschrift für Numismatik, 1909, pp. 166, 349-350

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