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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3224278, member: 96898"]Nice coins! The 3 Polker coins are interesting since they were issued by different 17th century authorities, changing only the shield but keeping the overall design. Below are some of mine (these are the most modern coins I have ever collected): [ATTACH=full]840093[/ATTACH]Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg, Brandenburg and Prussia, 3 Polker, 1622 AD, mint: Königsberg. Obv: DIEV & MON DROICT, crowned quartered shield with eagle (Brandenburg), griffin (Pomerania), lion (Jülich), escarbuncle (Kleve), inescutcheon with sceptre. Rev: GE. WI. M. AR. BR SR. I. E. L. PD., orb with 24, date 22. 20mm, 1.07g. Ref: Olding 2014, no. 47. [ATTACH=full]840109[/ATTACH]Gustav II Adolf (postumous), Swedish Livonia, 3 Polker, 1633, mint: Elbing. Obv: GVS ADO DG REX S, crowned quartered shield with three crowns (Sweden) and griffin (Livonia) or heraldic knight (Lithuania), inescutcheon with withy of the House of Vasa. Rev: MON NO REG SVE, orb with 24, date 33. 20mm, 0.75g. Ref: Kopicki 1995, no. 9213. [ATTACH=full]840112[/ATTACH]Gustav II Adolf (postumous), Swedish Livonia, 3 Polker, 1634, mint: Riga. Obv: GVST ADOLP D G REX S, crowned quartered shield with three crowns (Sweden) and lion (House of Bjelbo), inescutcheon with withy of the House of Vasa. Obv: MON NOVA [CIVI RIGE], orb with 24, date 34. 20mm, 0.99g. Ref: Haljak 2010, no. 1460. [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] , this might also answer your question about the shield on [USER=13719]@randygeki[/USER] 's coin. It shows the arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polish eagle and Lithuanian Vytis) with an inescutcheon for Sigismund showing the Vasa withy.[/QUOTE]

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