Polish Emigration Committee in Paris, 1831, medal to commemorate the November Uprising FATA ASPERA VINCES
ground reverse
Medal commissioned by the Polish Emigration Committee in Paris, made by Jean Rouvet after the fall of Warsaw.
Obverse: Eagle carrying in its talons a pennant with the coats of arms of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over the battlefield, city walls in the background, legend above:FATA ASPERA VINCES, in section 7 SEPTEMBRE 1831 (date of capitulation of Warsaw), sig. ROUVET
reverse: with ground
signed: Rouvet
gray metal, diameter 46 mm, weight 47.43 grams, thickness 3 mm
