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Medal - Unification of all Pomerania under Prussian rule

Medal - Unification of all Pomerania under Prussian rule - obverseMedal - Unification of all Pomerania under Prussian rule - reverse

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Features

Location Kingdom of Prussia
Type Commemorative medals › Event medals
Year 1815
Composition Bronze
Weight 50.03 g
Diameter 77.25 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
551640
References Old/Mue 2# 320
Manfred Olding, Gunter Mues; 2020. Die Medaillen der Preußischen Könige von 1786 bis 1870 / Band II - Friedrich Wilhelm III. 1797-1840: Katalog der Prägungen auf Friedrich Wilhelm II. 1786-1797, Friedrich Wilhelm III. 1797-1840, Friedrich WIlhelm IV. 1840-1861, Wilhelm I. 1861-1870 und deren Familien = The Medals of the Prussian Kings from 1786 to 1870. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany.
, Slg. Henckel# 3980
Adolph Weyl; 1876. Die Paul Henckel'sche Sammlung Brandenburg-Preussischer Münzen und Medaillen = The Paul Henckel Collection of Brandenburg-Prussian Coins and Medals. Gebrüder Unger, Berlin, Germany.
, Slg. Marienburg# 4980
Emil Bahrfeldt. Die Münzen- und Medaillen-Sammlung in der Marienburg. Verlag des Vereins für die Herstellung und Ausschmückung der Marienburg, Gdańsk, Poland (7 volumes).

Commemorative issue

Unification of Pomerania and Prussia

Obverse

The busts of the Great Elector, Frederick William I and Frederick William III facing left / Borussia receive the oath of allegiance from Pomerania, with Neptune and Viadrus in the foreground.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FRIEDER. WILHELMUS PR. ELECT. FRIDER. WILHELMUS I. FRIDER. WILHELMUS III
MDCLIII. MDCCCXV MDCCXX

G. LOOS DIR. F. KÖNIG FEC.

Engraver: Fritz König

Reverse

Borussia receives the oath of allegiance from Pomerania, with Neptune and Viadrus in the foreground.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
POMERANIA OMNIS INTRA III SECUL. IN FID. BORUSS. RECEPTA

PATRIA PATRIBUS
FIDA FELIX

Engraver: Fritz König

Edge

Plain

Comments

The Treaty of Paris also sealed the final annexation of Pomerania and Rügen to Prussia. 
The three regents, Frederick William the Great Elector, King Frederick William I and 
Frederick William III, accepted Pomerania's homage.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1815 

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