Circulating Piece. Variety with the tip of the obverse legend PRV M.
Coin from the collection of D. Pączkowski.
Obverse (partly after D. Pączkowski): half-figure of Sigismund III Vasa facing right. The epaulet with a decorative stripe running through its center. Wing without rosettes. four-bar crown. apple with two jewel bands. Lower hemisphere without decoration. The king holds a rapier with two shavings in his hand. Linear sash. Wide sash visible as a series of longitudinal ruffs. Breastplate with three belts with round buttons . The narrow chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece contains links constructed of a flint containing two bails with ends curled inward and elongated pins. Both belts of the apple jewels contain large half rosettes facing the shoulder to theright. In the vertical stripe, the half rosettes face shoulderup. A large bow with three ribbons and two knots, in the outer rim the legend:
+SIGIS-III:D:G:REX-POL-M:D:LI:RVS-PRV:M+;
Reverse: a five-field escutcheon with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Coat of Arms of the House of Vasa, crowned with a crown with a closed rim with numerous jewels, without fleurons, surmounted by a royal apple; On the sides of the escutcheon, the date 16-23 and labrys in the shape of snails, in a linear border, in the outer rim a legend punctuated by the coat of arms of Sas Treasurer Mikołaj Daniłowicz in an ornamental shield:
SAM LIV NEC N SV-GOT VAN Q HRI R;