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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3179964, member: 89314&quot;]Filling in your memory, Sigismund was the son of King Johan III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland. He was elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587 and succeeded his father in Sweden in 1592.&nbsp; In 1595 his uncle, Duke Karl, summoned a Parliament which appointed him&nbsp; Regent with &quot;the advice of the Council&quot;&nbsp; while Sigismund remained in Poland,&nbsp; Karl intended to depose Sigismund, whose Catholicism was distrusted in Sweden, as you say. Eventually a civil war broke out. Sigismund landed in Sweden with an army in May 1598&nbsp; but was defeated at the Battle of Stångebro in September. After some negotiations he fled back to Poland. Sigismund was officially deposed by a Riksdag on 24 July 1599 and in 1600&nbsp; the Estates elected Duke Karl as King Karl IX.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know, KM has not catalogued Polish coinage before 1600 but your coin is indeed the same type as KM #6 for which they list strikings from 1601-1615.&nbsp; It is in beautiful condition. There is a detailed Polish catalogue of these coins by Tadeusz Iger:&nbsp; <i>Katalog trojaków polskich</i> (as you probably know, in Polish these 3 groschen coins are known as trojaks). He lists many different varieties in 1594.&nbsp; Your coin appears to be M.94.1a struck in Malbork (known as Marienburg during the centuries in which the town was controlled by the Germans). The two mint marks at the bottom of the reverse are those of Kacpra Goebla (the kind of O) and Gracjana Gonzalo (triangle), mint masters at Malbork.&nbsp; The lion rampant in the shield below the bust on the obverse is the arms of Jan Firlej Jr., crown treasurer,1590-1609.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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