Medal from the Royal Suite, Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki - Bialogon

Cast iron, medal from the Royal Suite series with the image of Michal Korybut Wisniowiecki.

Former casting from the Bialogon ironworks, founded in the first half of the 17th century.

Obverse: bust of the king to the right, wearing a long wig, on his chest an order of gold fleece

MICHAEL CORYBUTH

Reverse: inscription in thirteen lines: EX STIRPE VISNIOVIECIA, JAGELLONIBUS AGNATA HIEREMIAE HEROIS, ET GRISELIDIS ZAMOYSCIAE FILIUS PRAETER SPEM ET VOTA PROPRIA, ELECTUS IN REGEM A. D. 1669. D. 19. JUN: BREVIBUS REGNI CURIS, AC INVIDORUM ODIIS SUBTRACTUS, OB: LEOPOLI A. D. 1673 AET: 34. REG: 4th D. ll. NOV (From the Wiśniowiecki family, related to the Jagiellonians, Hieronim, hero, and Gryzelda Zamojska son, despite hopes and his own desire, elected king in the year of our Lord 1669, on June 19, with the worries of a short government and the hatred of jealous people, having struggled for strength, died in Lvov in the year of our Lord 1673, aged 34, having reigned for 4 years, on November 11)

Diameter 45 mm, weight 35.93 g