Issue minted to commemorate Karol Estreicher, a Polish historian of literature and theater, long-time director of the Jagiellonian Library, known as the "father of Polish bibliography." It was presented to the scholar by a literary circle in Lviv and minted in Vienna in 1889.
Medal from the unique "Collection of Lviv and Galician Medals" of Lech Kokociński, Honorary President of the Polish Numismatic Society.
Obverse: bust of Karol Estreicher, left
KAROL ESTREICHER
Reverse: below a six-pointed star, with rays radiating from it, an inscription in two lines: ZIOMKOWIE / 1889, all surrounded by a floral wreath
✶ ZA BIBLIOGRAFIĘ POLSKĄ XVI, XVII, XVIII i XIX WIEK
Bronze, diameter 55 mm, weight 70.92 g
