Variety with a narrow bust without a bow, with the tip of the MASVR obverse legend.
A well struck piece, background cuts.
Lots of preserved mint luster.
Definitely an above average item, highly recommended for the best collections!
Sigismund's thaler coins provide 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.
Obverse: in the pearl rim, a royal half-figure wearing a five-crowned crown, with fleurons, surmounted by a royal apple; wearing a tubular orifice and armor, with a sash; with the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a chain with 4 visible flints; holding a royal apple with two jewel bands and a sword, to the right; 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)-PRVS(siae)-MASVR(iae)-;
Reverse: in a pearl rim crowned, with a four-cornered crown, with 4 sliver fleurons surmounted by rosette-shaped jewels, with 7 cross-shaped jewels in a closed rim; a nine-furlong 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-;
