First sixpence of the city of Wschowa in very nice state of preservation.
A very rare, broad, striking issue from the first year of minting this denomination during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa.
Piece with a rare mint surface, especially in the rim, where the mint mirror is largely preserved. Good centering minting. Light patina, adding to the charm.
The early Sigismund III sixpences of 1595-1596, with the exception of the large Malbork issue, are rare today, and catalog makers value them at grades from R4 to R8 (this R7). These are coins that, like other early coins of this ruler, as the silver content decreased in subsequent years, weakening the denominations, were caught out of circulation, remelted, destroyed. At the same time, this is an early vintage, which was naturally in circulation for a long time, hence it is hard to find nice pieces of it today.
In its history, Wschowa minted sixpences only occasionally, only in a few vintages during the two reigns. All of them are among great rarities. The present one, the oldest, is a coin from the period when the lease over the mint was taken over by Herman Rudiger, whose mark - a rose - we find on the reverse. It is accompanied by the sign of the russet (by Andrew Lauffert) and the coat of arms of Lewart of the Grand Treasurer of the Crown Jan Firlej.
A variety with the coat of arms of the Vasa dynasty in a straight shield and the notation of the word Kingdom in the abbreviated form REGI.
First time in our offer.
Silver, diameter 25.5 mm, weight 4.52 g.
