Rare bronze issue minted to commemorate the founding of the Ossoliński National Institute in Lviv in 1817, with a depiction of its founder, Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, on the obverse.
Medal by Józef Lang (1776-1835), Vienna, signed on the obverse.
Mintage 575 pieces, 125 in silver and 450 in bronze.
Medal from the unique “Collection of Lviv and Galician Medals” of Lech Kokociński, Honorary President of the Polish Numismatic Society.
Obverse: bust of Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, left, below it the signature JOS.LANG.F.
IOS.MAX.DE.TĘCZYNC.OSSOLINSKI SUP.RR.GAL.ET LOD.MARE.O.S.STE.COMM.
Reverse: building of the Ossoliński National Institute in Lviv, above it MUSIS - PATRISS, in the section there is an inscription in two lines
BIBLI.PUB.LEOPOLI.FUNDA. / MDCCCXVII.
Bronze, diameter 45 mm, weight 52.73 g
