A nice piece with well-preserved details.
Binding trace, background honing on obverse.
Variety with the obverse legend ending MASVR and NEG error on the reverse.
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. Interestingly, this piece, belonging to a very rare series on the market, uses the German-language name of Prussian Masovia derived from the Mazurian population living there.
It is worth noting that this variety, described by Dostych in 7 variants, despite its rather low degree of rarity, occurred in the Onebid archive in only 14 notations (represented by 12 pieces) out of 166 thalers of this vintage.
Obverse: in a pearl rim, a royal half-figure wearing a five-crowned crown, with lilac fleurons, with 4 rosette-shaped jewels in an open rim, surmounted by a royal apple; in a tubular orifice and armor, with a sash, with the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a chain with 5 visible flints; holding a royal apple with two bands of jewels in the shape of rosettes in a 3 x 1 arrangement and a sword, to the right; in the outer rim a legend punctuated by the Half-Cossack coat of arms in a simple shield of arms:
-SIGIS(mundus)-III-D(ei):G(ratia)-REX-POL(oniae)-M(agnus)--D(ux):LIT(huanie)-RVS(siae)-PRVS(siae)-MASVR(ien)-;
Reverse: in a pearl rim crowned, with a four-cornered crown, with 7 rosette fleurons, with 7 cross-shaped jewels in an open rim; nine-fluted shield of arms with the coats of arms of the Crown, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Sweden, Folkung and the coat of arms of the Snopes of the Vasa dynasty, with labrys on the sides, surrounded by a chain composed of 17 flints, with the Order of the Golden Fleece; between the shield and the chain initials I-I of Jacob Jakobson and the date 16-30; in the outer rim a legend divided by the Order:
-SAM(ogitiae)-LIV(oniaeque)-NEG-NO(n) SVE(corum)-GOT(horum)-VA(n)D(alorum):Q(ue)-H(ae)R(editarius)-REX-;
Diameter 43.5 mm ,weight 28.34 g.
