Very rare gilded bronze issue minted for the Agricultural-Industrial Exhibition held in Lviv in 1877. The exhibition was partially subsidized by the Viennese government. Exhibitors from the Kingdom of Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Austria, England, France, and America were among the exhibitors.
Medal by H. Schapir.
Excellent medal in mint condition.
Medal from the unique “Collection of Lviv and Galician Medals” of Lech Kokociński, Honorary President of the Polish Numismatic Society.
Obverse: in a laurel wreath tied in the middle with a ribbon, two crowned coats of arms, on the left side a four-field coat of arms of Galicia and Lodomeria, on the right side the coat of arms of the city of Lviv, below the signature SCHAPIRO
✶ PAMIĄTKA WYSTAWY KRAJOWEJ ROLNICZEJ I PRZEMYSŁOWEJ
Reverse: panorama showing the exhibition halls, below there is an inscription in two lines
WE LWOWIE / 1877
Gilded bronze, diameter 38 mm, weight 19.06 g
