fwo_910778 - POLAND - SIGISMUND I THE OLD Gros 1531
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Type : Gros
Date: 1531
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,98 g.
Coments on the condition:
Patine légèrement tachée
Obverse
Obverse legend : SIGIS I REX PO DO TOCI PRVS.
Obverse description : Buste couronné à droite de Sigismond Ier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : GROSS COMV TERR PRVSS 1531.
Reverse description : Aigle héraldique brandissant une épée.
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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