The lot is offered in the Dutch Auction format, in which the starting price will be gradually reduced until a Participant decides to purchase it.
Rare SILVER medal from the Royal Suite series with the image of Sigismund II Augustus, signed with the initials II REICHEL F.
Beautifully preserved example with an intense medal luster.
The details are excellent, no abrasions, only minor dings on the edge.
The Royal Suite is one of the most desirable and sought-after medal series in Polish numismatics, the medals it comprises appear on the auction market extremely rarely and always arouse a lot of emotion.
On Onebid, there has only been two SILVER listings in the last 20 years, and we have only seen four listings overall.
The offered specimen is in the most beautiful state of preservation of all those offered so far.
Obverse: bust of the king facing right, in a hat with a feather, Spanish robe, on the chest the Order of the Golden Fleece
SIGISMUNDUS AUGUSTUS (Zygmunt August)
Reverse: inscription in fourteen lines: SIGISMUNDI I EX BONA SFORTIA FILIUS UNICUS, VIVENTE PATRE DECENNIS IN REGEM ELECTUS, POST OBITUM PATRIS CURONIAM FEUDALEM REIPUBLICAE FECIT, LITHUANIAM NEXU PERPETUO POLONIAE ADJUNXIT, JAGELLONEAE STIRPIS ULTIMUS POLONIAE REX, ORBUS OBIIT KNISSINII AD 1572. AETAT: 52. REG: 24. D. 18. JUL
Sigismund I and Bona Sforza's only son, elected king during his father's lifetime at the age of ten, after his father's death he made Courland a duchy of the Polish crown, he united Lithuania with Poland in an eternal bond, the last Polish king of the Jagiełło dynasty, died childless in Knyszyn) in the year of our Lord 1572, aged 52, having reigned 24, on July 18
Silver, diameter 45 mm, weight 39.65 g
