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Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 53  25 Nov 2020
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Lot 1885

Estimate: 48 GBP
Price realized: 310 GBP
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Foreign Medals, Poland, the November Insurrection, copper medal, 1831-1832, by Barre, naked warrior breaks free of his shackles, NUNC OLIM ET QUOCUMQUE DABUNT SE TEMPORE VIRES, rev. Pogoń rides to left, Polish Eagle above, before a background of the 8 banners of the Ruthenian lands, 51.5mm (H-Cz. 3832, R3), very fine
Ex Baldwin's vault.
The November Insurrection (1830–31), unsuccessfully tried to overthrow Russian rule in the Congress Kingdom of Poland as well as in the Polish provinces of western Russia and parts of Lithuania, Belorussia (now Belarus) and Ukraine. 'Pogoń' is a word used to describe the galloping knight found on the Lithuanian coat of arms.
(80-120 GBP)
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