Circumferential piece of the rarer sixpence. Slight freshness to the background.
Variety with the initial of the Cracow mint under the shields.
Obverse: royal bust in antique style, to the right, in the rim legend:
IOAN III D G REX POL-M-D L-R-P;
Reverse: crowned four-cornered crown with five trefoil fleurs, with jewels on the bails, a three-field escutcheon, with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Sobieski family coat of arms - Janina, under the crown the denomination mark VI, under the escutcheon the date 16-8I; in the rim the legend divided by the Leliwa coat of arms in an oval escutcheon:
GROS ARG SEX-REG-POLONIAE;
