Issue struck in silver to commemorate the visit of Emperor Franz Joseph I to the Ethnographic Exhibition in Kolomyia, which took place in 1880.
Medal by H. Schapir, minted in Lviv in 1880.
Slightly bent.
Medal from the unique “Collection of Lviv and Galician Medals” of Lech Kokociński, Honorary President of the Polish Numismatic Society.
Obverse: crowned coat of arms of Kolomya, surrounded by a floral wreath tied with a ribbon in the middle, at the very bottom the signature H. SCHAPIRA LWÓW
Reverse: in the field, an inscription in five lines WYSATWA / ETNOGRAFICZNA / W / KOŁOMYI / DNIA 15 WRZEŚNIA 1880
✶ ZASZCZYCONA ODWIEDZINAMI MONARCHY FRANCISZKA JÓZEFA I.
Tin, diameter 35 mm, weight 8.72 g
