Medal Commemorating the War of Liberation Artist: Jean Jacques Barre (French, 1793–1855)
Mint: Board of Revenue

1832

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

60.30 g, 12:00, 51.5 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Dr. William Gilman Thompson, Ph.B. 1877

Accession Number

2001.87.28638

Geography

Made in Poland

Culture

Polish

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: NUNC. OLIM. ET. QUOCUMQUE. DABUNT. SE. TEMPORE. VIRES. Nude man draped with cloth and ripping chains from hands, chains on feet already broken. Stands on ground with POLONIA on it. PARISIIS 1832 BARRE below scene.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: * POLONIA. LITHVANIA. RVTHENAEQVE. PROVINCIAE. A. TYRANNIS. MOSCOVIAE. INIQVE. OPPRESSAE * LIBERTATEM. ARMIS. QVAEREBANT. 1830 - 1834. IN. REI. MEMORIAM LITHVAO. RVTHEICA. SOCIETAS. Soldier with shield and sword, l on horseback. Behind, eight spears jut out with labeled flags draped on them (UKRAINA, WOLYN, CZERY, RUS BIAEA, RES CZARNA, XIESTI SMOLT, XIES ZMUDZKIE, POT). Eagle with spread wings perched on center spears.
Provenance
Dr. WIlliam GIlman Thompson, to about 1928; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., about 1928; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1928–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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