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obverse design : soldiers, Polish Legion infantry, armed with rifles and bayonets advancing from right to left over a body-strewn ground.
In the right background a soldier on horseback holding a sword in his raised right hand. Above the soldiers an eagle flying from right to
left. In the distance a forest and low hills. The design is surrounded by a narrow ornamental roped edge
reverse design : Mars, full-length standing figure, helmeted, his head turned towards a crown which he holds in his left hand. On his right
Vulcan, standing behind an anvil, a hammer in his right hand. In the background a landscape of gently sloping fields and, partly obscured
by the horizon, the shining sun, the rays of which fill the sky. In the right middle distance a figure ploughing behind a
horse
exergue : "LEGIONY POLSKIE" & "1914-1915-1916"
Association - unit: Polish Legion, pro-Austrian Galician Poles, organised by Pilsudski, a future dictator of Poland, to
fight the Russians | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Eastern Front & 1914 = 1916 AH.A & Polish Legion commemorative First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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