Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
3 Grossus - Gotthard Kettler Mitau
| Issuer | Duchy of Courland and Semigallia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1586 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Six lines of stacked Latin legend filling the entire reverse field, with no central figural design, presenting the coin's denomination and issuing authority in an abbreviated inscription. The text identifies the piece as a silver triple grossus of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, along with the date. The arrangement is typical of small hammered silver denominations of the Baltic region in the late sixteenth century, where inscriptional reverses were commonly employed in lieu of heraldic devices on minor values. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 8 III 6 GROS · AR · TRIPLEX · GOTHAR : DVC · CVR · & · SEM (Translation: Grossus Argentea Triplex Ducum Curlandiae Et Semigalliae Silver triple grossus of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |