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1881 Colombia UnCirculated Police Medal Challenge 5 Peso Coin Policarpa Bondage

$ 16.42

Availability: 25 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Colombia
  • Condition: UnCirculated Medal / Very Fine Coin
  • Certification: Uncertified

    Description

    For Your Consideration
    Colombia 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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