A beautiful piece. A typologically interesting medal, relatively rarer on the auction market.
Patina.
Obverse: Bust of the king in armor, cloak and crown to the right, at the bottom signature J. TAUTENHAYN, in the rim legend:
IOANNES-III-REX-POLONIAE-MAGNVS-DVX-LITHVANIAE-RVSSIAE;
Reverse: In laurel wreath inscription:
OB-SOLVTAM-OBSIDIO/VINDOBONAM-FRACTVM/QVE-TVRCARVM-ROBVR
/INVICTISSIMO-DVCI/PIO-ANIMO-MEMOR/POSTERITAS/A-.
MDCCCLXXXII, in the rim FVLMEN-POLONIAE-LVMEN-EVROPAE-HORROR-ORIENTIS;
