A large piece of attractive beauty.
Mint luster in the background and pleasing to the eye, old patina.
Very rare in this state of preservation.
Rarer, early vintage.
Obverse variant with 6 stripes crowning the king's armor.
Reverse variant with slightly curved shield of the coat of arms and initials of Santi de Urbani Bani under the denomination.
Definitely recommended.
Obverse: bust of John III Sobieski wearing a laurel wreath, armor with 6 stripes, cloak studded with jewels, with an order cross on his chest, in the rim the legend:
IOAN-III D.G-REX POL-M-D-L-R-P-;
Reverse: crowned, with a four-cornered crown, with 5 fleurons and jewels in a closed rim, a five-field escutcheon with the coats of arms of the Crown, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the coat of arms of the Sobieski family - Janina;, on the sides of the escutcheon the denomination mark 1-8 and the initials S-B, in the rim the legend punctuated by the Leliwa coat of arms:
MON-NOVA ARG-REG-POLON-1677;
