A coin with exquisitely preserved details, with almost no traces of circulation, but with a pendant mark and background smoothing on the obverse.
Despite the mechanical flaws, a piece of decidedly above-average presentation, worthy of recommendation.
A more interesting variant of the bust with upturned fingers and stars starting the legend on the obverse.
Obverse: in a pearl border, 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 sash, 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 3 x 2 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 9 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 16 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)*REXx*;