Poland (Białogon Foundry) Cast Medal ND - Stephen Báthory (1576-1586)

31.57g. 44mm. UNC/UNC. 

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

Hutten-Czapski 3432 (R3); Raczyński 610.

Obv.: Bust of Stephen Báthory left, wearing helmet with plume, mantle fastened at the shoulder, and cuirass.

Inscription around:

STEPHANVS BATHOREVS.

(Stephen Báthory).

Rev.: Multi-line Latin inscription:

PRINS:TRANSILV: / ANNÆ JAGELLONÆ / REGINULÆ SPONSUS, / ELECT: IN REGEM A.D.1575 / D.15.DEC: CORON: ANO SEQUEN / TE D.30.MAII GEDANENSES AD / OBSEQVIUM ADEGI POLOCIAM / VITEPSCUM, ET LIVONIAM REIP: / ARMIS RESTITVIT TRIBVNALIA / INSTAURAVIT ACADEMIAM / VILNENSEM EREXIT JVSTUS / STRENVUS, ERVDITUS, / IMMATVRA MORTE / SVBLATVS GRODNÆ, / A.D.1586.ÆT:54.R.11. / D.12.DEC:

(Prince of Transylvania, husband of Queen Anna Jagiellon; elected king on 15 December 1575, crowned the following year on 30 May; he compelled the people of Gdańsk to obedience, restored Polotsk, Vitebsk, and Livonia to the Commonwealth by arms, re-established the tribunals, founded the Academy of Vilnius; just, energetic, learned; taken by untimely death at Grodno in 1586, aged 54, in the 11th year of his reign, on 12 December).

Stephen Báthory (1533-1586), Prince of Transylvania, now in Romania, became King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania after his election in 1575 and marriage to Anna Jagiellon. He strengthened the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now chiefly Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia and parts of Ukraine, through military successes against Muscovy and important internal reforms, including the re-establishment of the tribunals and the elevation of the Academy of Vilnius, now in Lithuania. He died at Grodno, now in Belarus.