v11_0816 - POLAND - SIGISMUND I THE OLD Gros 1528
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 53.36 €
Estimate : 91.47 €
Realised price : 64.18 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 64.18 €
Starting price : 53.36 €
Estimate : 91.47 €
Realised price : 64.18 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 64.18 €
Type : Gros
Date: 1528
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,00 g.
Coments on the condition:
Ce gros est frappé sur un flan assez large. Le revers présente un petit défaut de flan à 7 heures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : SIGISMVND / PRIMO REX / POLONIE.
Obverse description : en trois lignes, sous une couronne.
Obverse translation : (Sigismond Ier, roi de Pologne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (ROSE) MONETA* REGNI* POLONIE* 15Z8.
Reverse description : Aigle éployée, la tête tournée à gauche.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie du royaume de Pologne).
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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