Please help me Id this medalion. I took a picture beside canadian copper penny to show the size of the coin. I believe its a restrike of a smaller medallion is it silver?? Any inf would be great. Thanks Karl
I wish someone could tell more about this coin I just spent 3 hours trying to find more info without any sucsess. Hopping that one of the board memebrs seen this medallion before.
Haven't seen it, and canna read the writing, but I can decipher Polish because of my Slavic language speaky, so if you can post a larger image I can try to help you.
Obverse: Augustus II, DG (By the Grace of God) DG Rex (King) Poland and I can't read the rest. [I forget my latin]. The reverse is too small to read.
That medal honors August II (Augustus the Strong); the text around his portrait is AUGUSTUS II D G REX POLON M DUX LIT which means "Augustus II by the Grace of God King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania". Note the eagle and the knight on the horse (vytis) at the top - those can still be found in today's CoA of Poland (eagle) and Lithuania (vytis). The dates on the left (1697-1706) and the right (1709-1733) are the times when he was king of Poland. On the other side I can read RESTAURATOR ORDINIS AQUILAE POLONICAE which I think refers to the Order of the White Eagle that Augustus initiated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Eagle The long text around the edge is not in Polish but Latin; cannot read it all but it is basically a list of all the great things that Augustus did. Would be interesting to know what the tiny text at the bottom of the "portrait side" says ... Christian
Let's give this a try ... 1697 AUGUSTUS ELECTUS ET CORONATUS // Augustus elected and crowned 1699 CAMIENIEC PODOL URBS LIBERATA // City of Kamianets-Podilskyi liberated; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamianets-Podilskyi#History 1706 PAX ALTRANDSTADII - AUGUSTUS ABDICA..... (cut off) // Peace of Altranstädt - August abdicates; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altranstädt 1709 POLONIA PACATA - REX REDUX // Pacified Poland - Returning King Christian
