v08_1321 - POLAND - SIGISMUND I THE OLD Gros de Dantzig 1538 Dantzig
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 99.09 €
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Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 99.09 €
unsold lot
Type : Gros de Dantzig
Date: 1538
Mint name / Town : Dantzig
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 1,92 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et régulier. Joli portrait. Petites rayures sur le R de GROSSVS
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (ÉTOILE À 6 RAIS) SIGIS. I. REX. POLO. DO. TO. PRVSS.
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. GEDANEN. 1538.
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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