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1881 Colombia UnCirculated Police Medal Challenge 5 Peso Coin Policarpa Bondage
$ 16.42
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For Your ConsiderationColombia Police Medal Choice UnCirculated
5 Peso Bogota Policarpa in Chains
Giant Brass Medal Bigger than a Morgan Dollar / Bronze Coin
Policarpa Salavarrieta
(c. 26 January 1795 – 14 November 1817), also known as
La Pola
, was a
Neogranadine
seamstress
who
spied
for the Revolutionary Forces during the
Spanish
Reconquista
of the
Viceroyalty of New Granada
. She was captured by Spanish
Royalists
and ultimately executed for
high treason
. The Day of the Colombian Woman is commemorated on the anniversary of her death. She is now considered a
heroine
of the independence of
Colombia
.
[1]
Because her
birth certificate
was never found, her legal
given name
is unknown. The name Salavarrieta is known only by the names her family and friends used. Her father referred to her as Apolonia in his
will
, which Salvador Contreras, the
priest
who formalized the testament on 13 December 1802, confirmed.
[2]
She was closest to her brother, Bibiano, as she became his de facto guardian when her parents died. When the armed forces in Guaduas started looking for her, she began calling herself Policarpa.
In her 1817 forged
passport
, used to get in and out of
Bogotá
during the
Reconquista
, she appeared as "Gregoria Apolinaria."
Andrea Ricaurte de Lozano
, whom Policarpa lived with, and officially worked for in
Bogotá
, as well as Ambrosio Almeyda, a
guerrilla
leader to whom she supplied information, also called her by that name. Her contemporaries referred to her simply as "La Pola," but Policarpa Salavarrieta is the name by which she is remembered and commemorated.
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