A coin with very well preserved details.
Despite minor blemishes, a piece of decidedly above-average presentation, worthy of recommendation.
Sigismund's thaler coins provide excellent material for the study of abbreviations of Latin titulatures in numismatic epigraphy of the modern period due to the inclusion of the full royal titulature.
Obverse: in a pearl rim, a royal half-figure wearing a four-cornered crown, with lilac fleurons, with 9 jewels in an open rim, surmounted by a royal apple; in a tubular orifice and armor, with a sash; armor with 3 crosses in the wing, with a plate epaulet, with the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a chain with 5 visible chairs; holding a royal apple with two jewel bands and a sword; right; in the outer rim the legend:
-SIGIS(mundus):III:D(ei):G(ratia):REX-POLO(niae):M(agnus):D(ux):LIT(huanie):RVSS(iae):PRVS(siae):MA(soviae)-;
Reverse: in a pearl rim crowned, with a five-cornered crown, with 5 sliver fleurons, with numerous jewels in an open rim; a nine-fluted shield with the coats of arms of the Crown, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Sweden, Folkung, and the Coat of Arms of the Vasa dynasty, with labrys on the sides, surrounded by a chain composed of 16 flints, with the Order of the Golden Fleece; between the shield and the chain the date 16-27; on the shield the coat of arms of the Half-Kozic, in the outer rim a legend divided by the Order:
-SAM(ogitiae):LIV(oniaeque):NEC:NO(n):SVE(corum)-GOT(horum):VA(n)D(alorum):Q(ue) H(ae)R(ed)I(tarius):REX-;
