Rare and very impressive medal of one of the most famous Polish medalists, Jan Höhn, signed I.H.
Issue on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of Royal Prussia into Poland.
Jan Höhn's craftsmanship guarantees emotions during the auction. His medals have always attracted interest, and for some time now we have noticed a growing interest, with more and more participants of the auction market treating medals by outstanding authors as works of art, in this case the art of medallic art.
Obverse: Prussian coat of arms, an Eagle with an armed hand holding a sword above its right wing, an Eagle standing on the base, behind it a panorama with cities and rivers, above it the inscription PRUSSIA, above it a second Eagle in a crown with spread wings holding a scepter, above it the divine name written Hebrew letters in rays
TEUTONICOS PEPULIT VIRTUS PRUTENICA PULCHRUM NUMINIS ET REGIS CURA TUETUR OPUS (Prussian bravery, German forces repelled, God and the King support this beautiful work)
Reverse: coat of arms of Gdańsk with an inscription in twelve lines
GEDANI ANNOS ANTE DUCENTOS SUB AUGUSTIS D CASIMIRI AUSPICIIS UNIVERSA PROPE CUM PRUSSIA AB INFANDA CRUCIGEROR TYRANNIDE LIBERATAE TERTIUM LIBERTATIS SUAE SAECULUM, REGNANTE JOANNE CASMIRO FELICITER INCHOANTIS MEMORIA IN CIƆIƆCLIV (a souvenir of Gdańsk two hundred years ago under the high protection of Casimir with almost all of Prussia from the unbearable tyranny of the Teutonic Knights liberated, under the rule of John Casimir, he happily begins the third century of freedom in 1654)
Silver, diameter 55 mm, weight 38.36 g
