A beautiful piece, with traces of an old wash on the obverse.
An item practically unheard of in the trade, a bronze print of a medal weighing 18 ducats minted as a souvenir of the tribute of Courland.
Variety without the twigs on the reverse. Struck with worn stamps.
Obverse (description after Raczynski): Three round-oblong shields in a trigram with each other with ribbons, palms and myrtle connected. The upper one at the top has the coat of arms of the Polish crown and the v. x. of Lithuania with the coat of arms of the Poniatowski family. At the bottom right is the coat of arms of the Kurland duchy, on the left is the coat of arms of the Marshal of the Kurland Sejm, Mr. Briegen. In the middle still is a small also oblong-circular shield, on which are two cross-composed swords, with a third placed on them, at the end of which is a crown. This one depicts the coat of arms of the free mulattoes in Mitava. The inscription on the rim at the top: NON DISSOLVENDA CUM FIDE IUNXIT AMOR. Love eternal, fidelity lasting, with each other these bound together. At the bottom I. P. H[olzhäusser] F[ecit] (made).
Reverse:: MEMORIAE ET LAUDI GENTIS CURONICAE, QUAE HONORI DUCENS, AERARIUM REGIS SUI TEMPORUM INIQUITATE EXHAUSTUM LEVARE, INJUSSA, IMO NON ROGATA, SPONTANEUM, AC INDE PRETIOSIUS OBTULIT DONUM, DANTI AEQUE ET ACCIPIENTI DECORUM, GRATAE ET DEVINCTAE MENTIS, HOC PERENNE DICAT MONUMENTUM. STAN[islaus] AUG[ustus] REX. MDCCLXXIV. (Translated after Raczynski It is: In memory and for the glory of the Kurland people, who, having as an honor to support the treasure of their king, times exhausted by misfortune, without order, indeed without request, offered a voluntary and all the more precious gift, to the giver as well as the receiver of an ornamental, grateful and dutiful mind this perpetual proof is offered by Stanislaw Augustus the king 1774.) The last four lines of the inscription are encompassed by two oak branches. At the top is a small flower ornament...;
Bronze, diameter 44 mm, weight 35.16 g.
