An excellent piece, in mint fresh condition, luster falling into mirror, sharp relief.
The highest NGC grading, among those given so far, for this troy.
The type with a small king's head and a lying numeral 9 in the date - with a rarity in Kopicki's R5 catalog.
An undescribed punctuation variant in the Iger catalog:
To the best collections - beautiful art.
Obverse: royal bust in crown and armor, with tubular orifice seen from the side, to the right, in the rim legend: SIG-3 D:G-REX-POL-M-D-L;
Reverse: denomination marking -III-, below it coats of arms of the Eagle of the Crown, the Sheaf of the Vasa dynasty and the Pogo of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, below it legend in three lines: GROS-ARG/TRIP-REG/POLONIAE, below it the coat of arms of the Levart in a shield, between the initials of the Grand Treasurer of the Crown Jan Firlej -I-F and the abbreviated date 9-5; in the right field the mint mark "lion pierced with a hook "-by Daniel Koste;
