Issue dedicated to the historian Teodor Morawski, to celebrate the publication of his 6-volume work "History of the Polish Nation" .
Medal minted by the Literary Society of Paris in 1873.
The inscription CUIVRE on the edge.
Obverse: open book, above it the inscription DZIEJE NARODU POLSKIEGO
Reverse: inscription in nine lines
CIVI / INTEGERRIMO / RERVM POLONARVM / SCRIPTORI GRAVISSIMO / THEODORO MORAWSKI / EXTORRIS POLONORVM / SOCIETAS LITTERARIA / LVTETIAE PARISIORVM / MDCCCLXXIII
Diameter 57 mm, weight 76.29 g
