Silver Medieval Coins - 2 sets

Set 1. Five medieval silver coins









Set 2. Five medieval silver coins











                             Sigismund III (1587-1632)  

                                                

Sigismund III Vasa of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sigismund of Sweden (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632 N.S.), was the son of Sweden's King John III (1537 – 1592) of the House of Vasa, and his first wife, Catherine Jagiellon (1526 – 1583). Sigismund owed allegiance to the Imperial Habsburgs as a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Sigismund ruled the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he was known as Zygmunt III Waza, 1587 – 1632, and Sweden, where he was known as Sigismund Vasa, from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599. Thus he began and ended his kingship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, spending thirty eight years of his forty-five year reign, on the Polish-Lithuanian throne. Elected to the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sigismund sought to create a personal union between the Commonwealth and Sweden (Polish-Swedish union). After he had been deposed from the Swedish throne, he spent much of his time attempting to reclaim it. His reign initiated a series of wars between the Commonwealth and Sweden that would continue until the 1660s. Due to his failure to achieve anything of lasting importance apart from setting the stage for future devastating wars, some historians, such as Pawel Jasienica, regard his reign as marking the beginning of the end of the Polish Golden Age. He was commemorated on the striking of Zygmunt's Column in Warsaw, commissioned by his son and successor, Wladyslaw IV.*

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