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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 3963778, member: 96174&quot;]As I commented,&nbsp; I have absolutely no knowledge of the coins of Poland and the Baltic countries, and practically nothing&nbsp; either of the early history of the area, apart from the battle of Tannenberg.&nbsp; In my classes of medieval European history,&nbsp; Poland was&nbsp; of limited importance and first appeared on the syllabus of the 16th Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coming back to coins, it is relatively rare in Western Europe for the abbreviation REG. to stand for REGNUM or REGNI, as more weight was given to the holder of the title (king, duke, etc) than his possession (kingdom, duchy etc).&nbsp; The only exception that comes immediately to mind is&nbsp; Aragon, which contemporaries always referred to&nbsp; as the Crown of Aragon, never&nbsp; as the kingdom of Aragon.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I carried out a little research on the net (Wikipedia, and the Oxford History of Poland and Lithuania) and came up with the fact that Poland did indeed have a queen who ruled, namely Jadwiga (1373/4 – 17 July 1399), who was the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, reigning from 16 October 1384 until her death. She was the youngest daughter of&nbsp; Louis the Great, King of Poland and Hungary and his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jadwiga&nbsp; was crowned &quot;king&quot; in Cracov, then the&nbsp; capital of Poland, on 16 October 1384. With her mother&#039;s consent, Jadwiga&#039;s advisors opened marriage negotiations with Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania who was still a pagan.&nbsp; Jogaila promised to become a Catholic and to promote the conversion of his pagan subjects. He was baptised, changing his name to Władysław, and married Jadwiga on 15 February 1386 (thus creating a personal union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania).&nbsp; Less than a month later,&nbsp; he was crowned King of Poland&nbsp; as Władysław Jagiełło (4 March 1386). Jadwiga and&nbsp; Jagiełło then worked closely and amiably together as co-rulers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I repeat that I know nothing about Polish-Lithuanian coins of the period, but if this particular coin has a REG. on one side and a DUX on the other, could it perhaps be a coin of the two co-rulers, the queen of Poland and her husband, King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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