fwo_910775 - POLAND - SIGISMUND I THE OLD Gros de Dantzig 1534 Dantzig
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Type : Gros de Dantzig
Date: 1534
Mint name / Town : Dantzig
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,79 g.
Coments on the condition:
Patine tachée à l’avers
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Obverse
Obverse legend : (ÉTOILE À 6 RAIS) SIGIS. I. REX. PO. DO. TO. PR.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Sigismond Ier, cuirassé et couronné.
Obverse translation : (Sigismond Ier, roi de Pologne, seigneur de Thorn de Prusse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (DEUX PICS) GROSSVS. CIVI. DANG. 1534.
Reverse description : Couronne surmontant deux croix.
Reverse translation : (Gros de la cité de Dantzig).
Historical background
POLAND - SIGISMUND I THE OLD
(1506-1/04/1548)
Sigismund was born in 1467. He is the son of Casimir IV Jagiellon and the brother of Alexander I, King of Poland. He was commissioned in 1506 to govern Lithuania and then, in 1507, was elected King of Poland. He married Bonne Sforza, daughter of the Duke of Milan Jean-Galeas II, and made Krakow a center of the Renaissance. He died in this city in 1548; his son Sigismund II Augustus succeeded him.
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