A beautiful piece in a charming patina.
Variety with the PRV M legend tip, with worm-shaped labrys.
Obverse: half-figure of Sigismund III Vasa facing right. epaulet with decorative stripe running through its center. Wing without rosettes. four-bar crown. apple with two jewel bands. Lower hemisphere without decoration. The king holds a rapier with two shavings in his hand. Linear sash. Wide sash visible as a series of longitudinal ruffs. Breastplate with three belts with round buttons. The narrow chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece contains links constructed of a flint containing two bails with ends curled inward and oblong pins. The two jewel belts of the apple contain crosses. A large bow with three ribbons and two knots. The obverse stamp will be reused in 1624 to strike the orta cat 721, in the outer rim the legend:
+SIGIS-III:D:G:REX-POL-M:D:LI:RVS-PRV:M+;
Reverse: a five-field escutcheon with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Coat of Arms of the Vasa dynasty, crowned with a crown with an open rim with numerous jewels, with fleurons, topped with a royal apple; On the sides of the escutcheon, the date 16-23 and labrys in the shape of snails, in a rope border, in the outer rim a legend punctuated with the coat of arms of Sas Treasurer Mikołaj Daniłowicz in an ornamental shield:
SAM-LIV-NEC N-SV-GOT-VAN:Q-HRI-R;
