The Count Emery Hutten-Czapski Collection | Poland, Sigismund I 'the Great', of Lithuania, Russia and Prussia (1466-1548), Cast and Gilt AE Medal, 1527, by Opus Jobst Freudner, D SIGIS I R PP P EF AD VIVAM IMAGI AET A, bust right with wide neck, wearing a collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, rev. PO VTRIVSQ SAR REX MAZO DVX RVSS ET PRVS D AN 1527, crowned shield of Austria in centre, flanked by shields of Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Prussia within a frame, 81mm., 101.00g, 12h (Hutten-Czapski 274; Raczinski 3; Habich I, 1, 265), a magnificent contemporary casting of the highest quality, the gilding largely extant except on highest points, nearly extremely fine and extremely rare, amongst the most important Renaissance Medals for Eastern Europe
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