"A coincidence unheard of gave to the minting of this medal abroad, since in Poland no one would ever have thought to immortalize a memento of such a scurrilous crime..." began his argument Raczynski, describing the medal recalling the events of November 3, 1771.
Here was a medal minted to commemorate the failed kidnapping of King Stanislaw August by Confederates. With beautiful allegorical representations: the divine hand snatching the king from the hands of the assassins (bearing the maxim "do not touch my anointed") and Providence escorting the ruler to the Castle, accompanied by the sentences "The eyes of the Lord over the righteous / The faithful Poland rejoices."
Signed on the obverse: I. L. Oexlein.
Beautiful condition.
Bronze, diameter 43 mm, weight 33.37 g.
Obverse: king in Roman costume attacked by two furies, from clouds divine hand holding king, in rim legend:
NOLITE TANGERE CHRISTOS MEOS, in section HORA X NOCT D III NOV MDCCLXXI.
Reverse: Prowidentia escorts the king to the Castle of Warsaw, at top OCVLI DOMINI SVPER IVSTOS (eyes of the Lord over the righteous), in segment FIDA POLONIA GAVDET (faithful Poland rejoices).
