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Denar - Sigismund II August
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
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| Year | 1546-1599 |
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| Reference(s) | Gum#592; Kopicki#3214 |
| Obverse description | The Pahonia (Pursuer), the armored knight on horseback, depicted in right-facing gallop occupying the entire field; the rider bears a sword raised above his head in his right hand and a shield on his left arm, the shield charged with a double cross. The date, here reading 1557, appears in Arabic numerals in the lower field beneath the horse, flanked by a small six-pointed star mintmark. The design is executed in the bold, somewhat crude style characteristic of hammered billon issues of Vilnius, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse description | An eagle displayed, wings spread wide, with head turned to the right, rendered in a robust heraldic style filling the entire coin field. The eagle's breast and lower body terminate in elaborately stylized foliate or floral ornamental scrollwork, a distinctive decorative convention of the Lithuanian denar series struck under Sigismund II August at the Vilnius Mint. No legend or inscription surrounds the device; the plain, irregular flan is characteristic of the hammered technique employed for this denomination. |
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| Mintage | 1546 - (fr) queue de la monture baissée - 1546 - (fr) queue de la monture relevée - 1547 - - 1548 - - 1549 - - 1550 - - 1551 - - 1552 - - 1553 - - 1554 - Kopicki #3212, R3 - 1555 - - 1556 - Kopicki #3214, R2 - 1557 - - 1558 - - 1559 - - 1559 - (fr) variante date: 15-5-59 - 1560 - Kopicki #3219, R4 - 1563 - (fr) queue de la monture baissée - 1563 - (fr) queue de la monture relevée - 1599 - (fr) erreur date - |
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