Very rare SILVER medal from the Royal Suite series with the image of Stanislaw Leszczynski, signed with the initials I. I. REICHEL F.
A very nicely preserved piece with an intense mint medal mirror. Minor dings and scratches on the background surface, which do not affect the overall perception of the medal. Inscription side with a trace of a stamp crack. Overall presentation excellent.
The Royal Suite is one of the most desirable and sought-after medal series in Polish numismatics, the medals included in it appear on the auction market extremely rarely and always arouse a lot of excitement.
At Onebid over the past 20 years, only two listings in silver, where the last in 2010, a WCN auction with a sale amount dizzying for those years of 10,560 PLN.
The piece on offer is the best preserved piece so far offered at public auctions in Poland.
Obverse: bust to left, head without headdress, hair cut short, on armor fur on chest fastened with decorative brooch
STANISLAUS I LESZCZYNIUS (Stanislaw I Leszczynski).
Reverse: inscription in fourteen lines: REX A D 1705 SVETICO TUMULTU DATUS FORT RED AUG II CESSIT HOC SUBLATO UNA VOCE A D 1733 ELECTUS VI CEDENS EX VINDIB FOED A D 1736 LOTHARINGIA POTITUS PHILOSOPHUS EVERGETES PATRIAE SEMPER MEMOR FORTUITIS FLAMMIS AMBUSTUS OB LUNEVIL A D 1766 D 23 FEBR AET 89 (King of the year of our Lord 1705 during the Swedish riots given, To the forces of the returning Augustus II gave way. After the death of the same unanimously elected in the year of our Lord 1733. With the resignation of violence he took over Lorraine by the Treaty of Vienna 1736. True philosopher always mindful of his homeland, accidentally burned by fire, died in Lunewill in the year of our Lord 1766 on February 23, aged 89)
Silver, diameter 45 mm, weight 42.21 g
