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Medal - RUSSIA-EMPIRE - Commemorative Medal for the 100-Year-Jubilee of The Imperial Russian Academy

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Medal - RUSSIA-EMPIRE - Commemorative Medal for the 100-Year-Jubilee of The Imperial Russian Academy
Large bronze medal, non portable, diam. 87,3 mm, showing monument crowned by Empress Jekaterina II (1764) supposed by the muses of sculpture, architecture and painting. With circumscription of The Imperial names: Jekaterina II, Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II to the end of the jubilee on 4th November 1864. On reverse centre the portrait medallion of Tsar Alexander II surrounded by the names of the president and famous members of the academy. Modell and supervision by Professor REIMERS, cut by ALEKSETEN. Small spots of verdigris, small knocks on the edge.

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