Sweden Tin-Alloy Medal 1704 - Treaty with Poland (Warsaw Confederation) in Warsaw - Karl XII (1697–1718)

22.39g. 48mm. AU/AU. 

Delzanno (SKM) 129a (Ag) RRR - 3-5 known exemplars in private collections; HK 82. 

Extremely rare. 

Obv.: An upright sheaf of grain bound with a rope by two hands extended from clouds at left and right. 

Inscription around:

VITÆ LIGATVR IN VSVM

(It is bound for the use of life).

Inscription in exergue:

REIPUBL. CONFŒDER. / VARSAVIENSIS. / 1704.

(Of the Republic, the Warsaw Confederation / 1704).

Rev.: Inscription in five lines within a wreath; below, inscription in three lines.

Inscription within wreath:

FIDES / SERVATA. LI / BERTAS ASSER / TA. FINES IN / TEGRI

(Faith preserved / Liberty defended / Borders intact).

Inscription below:

TRACTATUS CUM / SVECIÆ REGE / CONCLUSUS.

(Treaty concluded with the King of Sweden).

This medal commemorates the treaty concluded in 1704 between Sweden and the Polish general confederation formed in Warsaw after the decision to depose King Augustus II. Issued during the Great Northern War, it reflects Sweden’s intervention in the internal affairs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its effort to reshape the political order in Poland, today Poland and Lithuania, in opposition to Augustus II, who was also Elector of Saxony, today Germany. The imagery of the bound sheaf and the inscriptions emphasize unity, restored liberty, and the preservation of the Commonwealth’s frontiers under the new political alignment supported by Charles XII.