A beautiful and interesting coronation medal of Augustus II with a family tree on the reverse. A propaganda medal, with a tree whose roots "proved" his kinship with the Jagiellonians, and more specifically, that the newly elected monarch of Poland is the great-grandson of Casimir IV. The genealogy, meanwhile, is accompanied by the beautiful maxim"Polonis Sangvine Iunctus," meaning "connected to the Poles by blood."
Signed in section of the arm G.W.
Very rare.
Silver, diameter 42.5 mm, weight 28.89 g.
Obverse: bust of the king in a long wig, to the right, in a double border the legend:
FRIDERICVS AVGVSTVS DEI GRATIA REX POLONIAE/SACRI ROMANI IMPERII ARCHIMARESCHALLVS ET ELECTOR
Reverse: family tree from Casimir IV Jagiellon, to Frederick Augustus, in shield: ELECTVS/D 17/27 IVNII/CORONATVS/D 5/15 SEPT./M D C III CA, in rim: POLONIS SANG: VINEIVNCTVS
