E-auction 34-12373 - fre_310499 - POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - JOHN III SOBIESKI Quart de thaler ou 18 grozy 1677 Cracovie

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - JOHN III SOBIESKI Quart de thaler ou 18 grozy 1677 Cracovie VF

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Estimate :	150 €
Price :	31 €
Maximum bid :	38 €
End of the sale :	09 December 2013 16:53:30
bidders :	7 bidders

Type : Quart de thaler ou 18 grozy

Date: 1677

Mint name / Town : Cracovie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 28,1 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 5,68 g.

Obverse

Obverse legend : IOAN. III. D. G. REX. POL. M. D. L. R. PR..

Obverse description : Buste couronné et cuirassé à droite de Jean III.

Reverse

Reverse legend : MON. NOVA. ARG. - REG. POLON. 1677.

Reverse description : Écu sous une couronne coupant la légende en haut, écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Pologne, aux 2 et 3 de Lituanie, sur le tout un écu de Vasa ; de part et d'autre de l'écu 1-8.

Historical background

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - JOHN III SOBIESKI

(20/05/1674-17/06/1696)

Jean III (2/06/1624-17/06/1696), son of Jacques Sobieski, married in 1665 Marie Casimire de la Grange d'Arquien (1641-1716) who sometimes had a very bad influence on him. He was elected king of Poland following his brilliant victory over the Turks at Khotine and succeeded Michel Wisniowecki in 1674. His victory at Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683 freed Vienna, besieged by the Turks. Presented as the savior of Christianity and the new Godfrey of Bouillon, he continued the fight against the Turks in Moldavia and Bessarabia, but had to abandon his claims to a great kingdom in Central Europe, under Russian pressure, at the Treaty of Moscow (1686). He tried to ensure for his son Jacques-Louis (1667-1737), the succession of the throne of Poland. He failed in this last enterprise. It was Frederick Augustus II of Saxony who succeeded him on the throne, paving the way for a civil war which would only end with the partition of Poland..