Mint medal from one of the most impressive and desirable medal series issued in Poland - the Royal Suite.
A beautifully preserved, cabinet piece. With a mirror background peeking out from under the charming patina.
Very rare in type alone (collecting a complete suite is a challenge for years, and even that may not be enough), in such condition it is almost unheard of.
It's a medal from an early, first group made in 1791, for which 11 pairs of stamps were prepared by the king's court medalist, Jan Filip Holzhaeusser. After his death a year later, the work was continued by Jan Jakub Reichel.
Commemorating Casimir IV Jagiellon, the victor of the war against the Teutonic Order, the conqueror of Gdansk Pomerania, or the one who restored Torun, Elblag and Gdansk, among others, to Poland.
In our offer original minting in silver of this medal we had only 1 time. Piece in st.2- more than 7 years ago.
Obverse: bust facing left (signed I.P.H. in front of it), wearing a cap with a tufted hat, with a shield with the Prussian eagle, in the rim:
CASIMIRUS JAGELLONIDES.
Reverse: inscription in lines: JAGELLONIS FILIUS ALTER, PRUSSIAM VOLENTIBUS INCOLIS JUGO TEUTONORUM EREPTAM REGNO RESTITUIT, PROVINCIAMQUE FECIT. OBIIT GRODNAE A[nno] D[omini] 1492 AETAT[is] 66. REG[ni] 45. D[ie] 7. JUN[ii].
Jagiello's second son, Prussia, at the request of the inhabitants from under the German yoke, was restored to the crown and made a province. He died in Grodno on June 7, 1492, aged 66, reigning 45 years.
