A very nice piece with above average minting, minus a pendant mark....
Sigismund's thaler coins are excellent material for research on abbreviations of Latin titulatures in numismatic epigraphy of the modern period due to the inclusion of the full royal titulature.
Interesting variant of reverse punctuation composed of stars.
Obverse: in a pearl rim a royal half-figure wearing a four-cornered crown, with lilac fleurons, with 5 cross-shaped jewels in an open rim, surmounted by a royal apple; in a tubular orifice and armor, with a sash; armor with 2 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 bands of cross-shaped jewels in a 4 x 1 arrangement and a sword; clockwise; in the outer rim a legend punctuated by the Half-Kosic 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):PRV(ssiae):MASO(viae)+;
Reverse: in a pearl rim crowned, with a double-barrelled crown with a reticulated cap, with 5 helical fleurons surmounted by crosses, with 10 cross-shaped jewels in an open rim; a nine-furlong escutcheon with the coats of arms of the Crown, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Sweden, the Folkung and the Coat of Arms of the Vasa dynasty, with labrys on the sides, surrounded by a chain composed of 14 flints, with the Order of the Golden Fleece; between the escutcheon and the chain initials I-I of Jacob Jakobson and the date 16-30; in the outer rim a legend punctuated by the Order:
*SAM(ogitiae)*LIV(oniaeque)*NEC*NO(n):SVE(corum)-GOT(horum)*VA(n)D(alorum):Q(ue)*H(ae)R(editarius)*REX*;
Diameter 44 mm, weight 27.8 g.
