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Medal - Stanisław August Poniatowski
| Location | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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| Year | 1782 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bare bust of King Stanisław August Poniatowski in high relief, with elaborately curled hair. The circumferential Latin legend reads around the upper and lower fields, separated by the bust. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a multi-line Latin dedicatory inscription in the field, surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves tied with a ribbon at the base. The text records the award to Onufrio Orlowski, a diligent botanical studies tutor at the Vilnius Academy, for uncovering and preventing a plot against the life of his master Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert, professor of natural history, dated MDCCLXXXII. |
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| Reverse lettering | OB CIVEM / SERVATUM / ONUFRIO ORLOWSKI / STUDII BOTANICI / IN ACADEMIA VILNENSI / REPETITORI DILIGENTISSIMO / QUOD NEFANDAS DETEXIT / ET IMPEDIVIT INSIDIAS / IN VITAM GENTI REGIQUE / UTILEM ET CARAM / MAGISTRI SUI / IOAN GILIBERT / HIST NATUR PROFES / MDCCLXXXII |
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