900 proof Fine Gold medal, 90% gold

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The obverse side has two crosses under a crown (the coat of arms of Gdańsk) and the date 15-77. On the rim is the inscription: GROSSVS x CIVI x GEDANENSIS. The reverses side has a bust of Christ with the royal apple in his hand. On the rim is the inscription: DEFENDE NOS CHRISTE (Christ Defend Us). Product is marked with the MW signature—the trade mark of the Warsaw Mint, today the Mint of Poland, which guarantees the authenticity, the original artistic design and the highest quality of production. At the beginning of the reign of Stephen Báthory (1576—1586) an indelible stigma was left in the rebellious city of Gdańsk, which had not recognized his election as King. Báthory replied with immediate repression, i.e. with the interdiction, driving the entire Vistula's rafting to Elbląg, and in the early spring of the year 1577 began the ten-month siege of the city. A memento of the siege is the first Polish siege-coins that the city had to strike the payment of the soldier's pay for the mercenary soldier. These coins bear the home page instead of the King's bust portrait, a torso or full standing figure of Christ and in different variants the inscription: DEFENDE NOS CHRISTE SALVATOR, i.e. Christ Defend Us, the Savior. On the backside, the city coat of arms was traditionally placed. The Gdańsk mint during the siege was initially conducted by Kasper Goebel who did not put neither hide nor hair on his coins. After his imprisonment on charge of high treason, i.e. favorings to the Polish King his position was taken over by Walter Tallemann from Lübeck, who marked his coins with the sign of the jackdaw. The mintage of gold coins was commissioned by the Italian Gratianus Gonzalo, a current citizen of the Gdańsk. Due to lack of raw materials, as in all circumstances of war, they pierced the silver church coins, also confiscated and melted works of high-class art of artistic and historical significance. Moreover in the besieged Gdańsk, old coins and foreign coins with the small town's coat of arms or hooks (cachets) remained in circulation. In December 1577, there was a honorable and mutually beneficial arrangement. The city of Gdańsk submitted the King homage and 200,000 złoty of wartime contributions. The King generously resigned from the exercise of the statutes of 1570, subordinating Gdańsk from royal authority. The coins of the besieged city of Gdańsk from 1577 are the only Polish minted coins, and thus in Polish numismatics, bearing the image of Christ. Free Gift • Stylized Box with the SMP signature. • Certificate of Authenticity (in original Polish language). Product Details --------------------- Edition Limited Edition Collection of 1577 Only 25 available for US Country : Poland Weight 0.28 oz Stamp Mirror Alloy Gold (Au) 900 Diameter 0.83" Condition Uncirculated
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