Lead or WM, diameter 43.8mm. Cast copy of the City of Strasbourg Silver (gilt) Medal with City Coat of Arms and Ten Arms of the Cities of the Dekapolis, issued in the period 1655-78.  THVE RECHT UND SCHEV NIEMAND (Do right and fear no-one.)  Arms of Strasbourg in centre surrounded by the arms of the Dekapolis.  R. FORCHTE GOTT   EHRET DEN KONIG (Fear God and honour the king)  View of the city, Victory flying above.  Engel and Lehr: Numismatique de l'Alsace, no. 559.  Fine - good Fine

Founded and ratified by Charles IV in 1354, the Dekapolis (La Décapole) was an alliance of ten cities in the Alsace region of the Holy Roman Empire with the city of Haguenau as its capital. Although representatives of the league met in Strasbourg, the city was not a member of the alliance. It included the cities of Münster, Kaysersberg, Türkheim, Colmar, Schlettstadt, Landau, Weissenburg, Rosheim, Hagenau and Oberehnheim.
Strasbourg remained an independent city though its concerns and fate mirrored the cities of the Dekapolis. The cities were ravaged during the Thirty Years' War, taken by King Louis XIV of France and he retained them according to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. After the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1679 the alliance was dissolved and the city of Strasbourg would be seized by the French King in September of 1681.