A very nice piece with rubbing of only the highest parts of the relief.
Very well preserved luster in the background.
Variant with PRVS MA in the obverse legend and SVE in the reverse legend.
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.
Obverse: in a pearl rim, a royal half-figure wearing a four-cornered crown, with cross-shaped fleurons, with 5 cross-shaped jewels in an open rim, with 10 jewels on bails, with a reticulated cap, surmounted by a royal apple; wearing a tubular orifice and armor, with a sash, armor with 7 crosses in the sash, with two rows of balls and a row of crosses in the epaulet, with the Order of the Golden Fleece suspended from a chain of 3 chairs; holding a royal apple with two bands of cross-shaped jewels in a 4 x 2 arrangement and a sword; clockwise; 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)-MA(soviae);
Reverse: crowned in a pearl rim, with a four-cornered crown, with 5 cross-shaped fleurons, between which are additional cross-shaped jewels, with 9 cross-shaped jewels in an open rim; a 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 of 12 flints, with the Order of the Golden Fleece; between the shield and the chain the initials I-I of Jacob Jakobson and the date 16-28; in the outer rim a legend divided by the Order:
SAM(ogitiae)-LIV(oniaeque)-NEC-NO:SVE(corum)-GOT(horum)-VA(n)D(alorum):Q(ue)-H(ae)R(ed)I(tarius)-REX+;
