World Historical Medals
Lot 4368 SESSION 14 (4.30pm Thursday 23 July) World Historical Medals
Estimate $80
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SOLD $100
FRANCE, To Heroic Poland, 1831, in bronze (51mm) by Barrie, obverse, figure of female Liberty comforting female representation of Poland with legend 'Tu Ne Mourras Pas' (You will not die), reverse, thirteen stars above, crossed laurel and fern sprays with rampant lion beneath, in centre 'A / L'Heroique Pologne' (To Heroic Poland). Good very fine.
To commemorate the heroic but failed uprising of 1831 against the occupation of Poland by the Tsarist Russian Empire.
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