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Live starting : Type : Gros
Date: 1533
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 1,93 g.
Obverse
Obverse legend : SIGIS I REX PO DO TOCI PRVS.
Obverse description : Buste couronné à droite de Sigismond Ier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : GROSS COMV TERR PRVSSIE 1533.
Reverse description : Aigle héraldique brandissant une épée.
Historical background
POLAND - SIGISMUND I THE OLD
(1506-1/04/1548)
Sigismund was born in 1467. He is the son of Casimir IV Jagiellon and the brother of Alexander I, King of Poland. He was commissioned in 1506 to govern Lithuania and then, in 1507, was elected King of Poland. He married Bonne Sforza, daughter of the Duke of Milan Jean-Galeas II, and made Krakow a center of the Renaissance. He died in this city in 1548; his son Sigismund II Augustus succeeded him.
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