A nicely preserved piece.
An extremely rare variety without the last digit of the date, practically unheard of on the market, appreciated with a very high degree of rarity - R5 - in the latest Shatalin catalog.
Obverse: half-figure of Sigismund III Vasa facing right. in the outer rim legend:
+SIGIS-III:D:G:REX-POL-M:D:LI:RVS-PRVS-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 Snopes of the House of Vasa, crowned with a crown with a closed rim with 3 jewels, without fleurons, surmounted by a royal apple; On the sides of the escutcheon, the date 16-2 and labrys in the shape of snails, in a rope border, in the outer rim a legend punctuated by the coat of arms of Sas Treasurer Mikołaj Daniłowicz in an ornamental shield:
SAM LIV NEC N SV-GOT VAN Q HRI R;
