Variety with the legend ending PRVSS.
A piece of great beauty. Very good detail and nice glossy background. Very good minting quality.
During the reign of Sigismund the Old, in 1526-1528, perhaps the most important monetary reform in the history of Polish money was carried out. A modern, well-functioning system based on full value coinage - silver and gold - was introduced. The monetary system of Sigismund the Old was represented by denars, ternars, shekels, half-pennies, pennies, troyaks, sixpences, thalers (still medals) and ducats. The king led to the monetary union of the Crown and Royal Prussia. The monetary system of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, however, functioned separately (4 Lithuanian pennies equaled 5 Polish pennies). Sigismund the Old left his mark not only on Polish minting (as King of Poland) and on Lithuanian minting (as Grand Duke of Lithuania). He also left his mark in Silesian minting as Duke of Glogow, minting (possibly) halerds and (certainly) Glogow pennies in 1505 and 1506.
