Beschreibung Vorderseite

In the centre an inscription in twelve rows: HENRICI II. FRANCORUM REGIS TERTIOGENITUS, ELECT: A.D.1573.CORON: A.D.1574.D.21.FEBR:VIX COMPLETIS IN POLONIA QUINQUE MENSIBUS, ABIIT IN GALLIAM AD CAPESSENDUM ILLUD REGNUM, MORTE CAROLI IX.FRATRIS ORBATUM,TRUCIDATUS A.D.1589.AETAT: Below inscription image of the Eagle established as the State Emblem of the Republic of Poland and mintmark flanked by year 20-18, RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA 500 Zl around.

Beschreibung Rückseite

The bust of the king Henry Valois facing right, modelled on a portrait painted by Marcello Bacciarelli. The king is wearing a velvet hat with ostrich feathers and a brooch pinned above the forehead, with a curled moustache and a small beard, with an earring in his right ear; in a decorative French robe with a lace collar, in a coat and with the Order of Saint Michael on a ribbon. Above an inscription: HENRICUS VALESIUS. At the bottom an inscription: I.I.REICHEL.F.