MK-B | Litauen: Sigismund II. August 1564

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Litauen: Sigismund II. August 1564
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	Bekröntes Monogramm SA, beiderseits die geteilte Jahreszahl 1564, unten die Wertangabe XXX Groschen.
Reverse	Mehrteiliger Wappenschild Polen (Adler) und Litauen (Reiter), unten Engel (Kiew), Bär (Smolensk) und Kreuz (Wolyn), darauf der Herzschild Bona Sforza (Mutter des Königs), darüber Fürstenhut.
Class/status	Kingdom (medieval/modern)
Authority	Sigismund II Augustus (1529-1572), Grand duke of Lithuania, from 1530 king of Poland, from 1548 sole ruler
Date	1564 Renaissance
Denomination	Taler Taler The Guldengroschen (Guldiner) issued by the counts of Schlick in Joachimsthal (Jáchimov) were quickly labelled Joachimstaler (Joachimsthaler) or simply Taler (Thaler), hence introducing this term as a name for the now highly popular huge silver denomination equivalent to the gold gulden (florin). This id serves to identify all similar coins (within mainly the German speaking world) issued during the following centuries. For specific types of Talers and foreign currency based on the Taler see designated ids and their definitions. Lit.: F. von Schrötter, Wörterbuch der Münzkunde (1930) s.v. Taler pp. 676-677.
	Silver ; 27,04 g; 42 mm; 3 h
Production	struck
Mint	Vilnius
Region	Baltikum
Country	Lithuania
Publications	M. Gumowski, Handbuch der polnischen Numismatik (1960) 109 Nr. 629; E. Kopicki, Ilustrowany skorowidz pieniędzy Polskich i z Polską związanych I (1995) 150 Nr. 3319; J. S. Davenport, European Crowns 1484-1600 (1977) 154 Nr. 8419.
Item	Coin
Department	Modern Period, 16th century
Provenience	Mindestens seit 1904 im Bestand des Münzkabinetts.
Accession	Ohne Nummer
Object number	18223343
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