An extremely rare value absent from most collections.
A sought-after item in any state of preservation. Here a piece of good presentation, slightly deficient.
Variant with REGIS in the reverse legend. Variant with a colon ending the obverse legend, not noted in Kaminski and Kurpiewski.
Obverse: bust of the king in crown, armor and orifice to the right, fronted by an inner corded border, in the outer border the legend:
SIGIS-3-D:G:REX:POLO:M:D:LIT:;
Reverse: at the top of the field the coats of arms of the Crown, the Vasa dynasty and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, above them the denomination mark V-I divided by a crown; below the coats of arms the legend in 3 lines:-------/.
GROS.ARGE/SEXD:REGIS/POLONIAEx, below it the date 15-x-95 punctuated by the rose mark of Herman Rudiger, the Lewart coat of arms of the Grand Crown Treasurer Jan Firlej and the grisaille mark of Andrzej Lauffert; below it the initials of the Treasurer -I-F- punctuated by a shield with the Lewart coat of arms.
Silver, diameter mm, weight g, stamp offset axis h.
