Rare issue in zinc struck to commemorate the so-called Prussian expulsions, i.e. the mass expulsion of Poles from the eastern provinces of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1885–1886.
Mint luster on both sides.
Medal from the unique “Collection of Lviv and Galician Medals” of Lech Kokociński, Honorary President of the Polish Numismatic Society.
Obverse: Prussian soldier, wearing a pickelhaube and a long coat, holding an imperial order, trampling on the Polish coat of arms, driving a mother and children from a farmstead.
✶ PAMIĘCI WYPĘDZONYCH POLAKÓW Z RODZIMEJ ZIEMI PRZEZ PRUSAKÓW ✶ CYWILIZACYA ✶1866✶XIXgo WIEKU
Reverse: map of the Polish lands, with the crowned three-field coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at its base: the Eagle, the Knight, and the Archangel Michael
✶NIE ROZŁĄCZĄ SIŁY CO WIEKU SPOIŁY
Zinc, diameter 42 mm, weight 21.81 g
