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500 Zloty – Stephen Bathory (2019)

Image source: National Bank of Poland

Additional information

Title / Occasion	Stephen Bathory
Country	Poland
State	Third Polish Republic
Denomination	500 Zloty
Year of Issue	2019
Material	Gold
Fineness	Au .999
Size (mm)	45.00
Weight	62.20 g
Shape	Round
Edge	SKARBY STANISlAWA AUGUSTA * STEFAN BATORY *
Quality	BU
Mint	Warsaw
Mintmark	Monogram MW
Mintage	600
Series	Treasures of King Stanislaw August
Designer	Kotowicz, Robert, Kotowicz, Robert (Obv), Wątróbska-Wdowiarska, Anna (Rev)

Description obverse

In the centre an inscription in fourteen rows: PRINS:TRANSILV: ANNAE JAGELLONAE REGINULAE SPONSUS, ELECT: IN REGEM A.D.1575. D 15-DEC: CORON: ANO SEQUEN/TE D.30.MAII GEDANENSED AD OBSEQUIUM ADEGI POLOCIAM VITEPSCUM ET LIVONIAM REIP: A RMIS RESTITUIT TRIBUNALIA INSTAURAVIT ACADEMIAM VILNENSEM EREXIT JUSTUS STRENUUS, ERUDITUS, IMMATURA MORTE SUBLATUS GRODNAE. Below inscription image of the Eagle established as the State Emblem of the Republic of Poland and mintmark flanked by year 20-19, RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA 500 Zl around.

Description reverse

The bust of the king Stephen Bathory facing left, modelled on a portrait painted by Marcello Bacciarelli. The king is wearing a traditional Hungarian woollen cap decorated with feathers, a zhupan, and a delia cloak with a fur collar and buttons, clasped with a round fibula Above an inscription: STEPHANUS BATOREUS. At the bottom an inscription: I.I.REICHEL.F.