Poland (Białogon Foundry) Cast Medal ND - Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1669-1673)

31.87g. 44mm. UNC/UNC. 

Medalier: I. I. Reichel (signature on obverse: I. I. REICHEL. F.).

Hutten-Czapski 3436 (R2) (for prototype); Raczyński 614 (for prototype).

Obv.: Bust of Michael Korybut right, draped and cuirassed, with long curled hair.

Inscription around:

MICHAEL KORYBVTH.

(Michael Korybut).

Rev.: Multi-line Latin inscription:

EX STIRPE / VISNIOVIECIA, / JAGELLONIBUS AGNATA / HIEREMIÆ HEROIS, ET / GRISELIDIS ZAMOYSCIÆ / FILIVS, PRÆTER SPEM, ET / VOTA PROPRIA,ELECTVS IN / REGEM A.D.1669.D.19.JVN: / BREVIBUS REGNI CURIS, / AC INVIDORUM ODIIS SUB / TRACTUS, OB: LEOPOLI / A.D.1673. ÆT: 34.REG: / 4.D.11.NOV.

(Of the Wiśniowiecki line, related to the Jagiellons; son of the hero Jeremi and of Gryzelda Zamoyska; elected king beyond expectation and against his own wishes on 19 June 1669; after a short reign, cut off by cares of rule and the hatred of the envious; died at Lwów in 1673, aged 34, in the 4th year of his reign, on 11 November).

Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640-1673) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, elected in 1669 after the abdication of John II Casimir. Son of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, he came from a powerful Ruthenian noble family of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose historical lands are now chiefly in Poland and Ukraine. His brief reign was marked by internal political conflict, and he died at Lwów, now Lviv in Ukraine.