Live auction - fme_684241 - POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - JOHN III SOBIESKI Médaille, Johann Hevelius

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - JOHN III SOBIESKI Médaille, Johann Hevelius AU

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Estimate :	500 €
Price :	3 350 €
Maximum bid :	4 700 €
End of the sale :	07 September 2021 19:04:16
bidders :	6 bidders

Type : Médaille, Johann Hevelius

Date: 1687

Metal : silver

Diameter : 52,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Engraver J. Höhn

Weight : 52,65 g.

Edge : lisse

Puncheon : sans poinçon

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire en argent mais présentant quelques marques d’usure sur les hauts reliefs du portrait. Patine grise hétérogène. Traces de manipulation et d’un ancien nettoyage dans les champs. Présence de quelques fines rayures, en particulier sur la tranche

Catalogue references :

Dutkowski / Suchanek630

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Buste habillé et drapé de face.

Reverse

Reverse legend : IOHANNES HEVELIUS / DANTISCAN, CON SULVET. CIVITAT / DELICIUM REGUM AC PRINCIPUM / ASTRONOMORUM IPSE PRINCEPS / IN GLORIAM AT QVE ADMIRATIONEM / SECULI PATRIAE ORBIS / ANNO 1611 DIE 28 IANUARII NATUS / REM CONSILIIS PUBLICAM IUVIT / LETERARIAM PRAE CELLENTIB. MONUMENT. / AUXIT / MERITIS IN UTRAM QVE ILLUSTRIS / PLENDOREM NOMINIS AETERNITATI / INSERUIT / IPSO NATALI DIE / ANNO 1687 / DENATUS..

Reverse description : Légende en 16 lignes horizontales, signé : I. H.

Commentary

Cette médaille a été émise à la mort de l’astronome Johann Hevelius (Jan Heweliusz)(1611-1687). Il étudia le droit à Leyde, puis repris la brasserie de son père à Dantzig mais se consacre finalement à l’astronomie. On lui doit entre autre le “Selenographia” en 1647, une carte détaillée de la face visible de la Lune.

Historical background

POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - JOHN III SOBIESKI

(20/05/1674-17/06/1696)

Jean III (2/06/1624-17/06/1696), son of Jacques Sobieski, married in 1665 Marie Casimire de la Grange d'Arquien (1641-1716) who sometimes had a very bad influence on him. He was elected king of Poland following his brilliant victory over the Turks at Khotine and succeeded Michel Wisniowecki in 1674. His victory at Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683 freed Vienna, besieged by the Turks. Presented as the savior of Christianity and the new Godfrey of Bouillon, he continued the fight against the Turks in Moldavia and Bessarabia, but had to abandon his claims to a great kingdom in Central Europe, under Russian pressure, at the Treaty of Moscow (1686). He tried to ensure for his son Jacques-Louis (1667-1737), the succession of the throne of Poland. He failed in this last enterprise. It was Frederick Augustus II of Saxony who succeeded him on the throne, paving the way for a civil war which would only end with the partition of Poland..