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fwo_758733 - FINLAND - GRAND-DUCHY - ALEXANDER II 1 Penni 1871

FINLAND - GRAND-DUCHY - ALEXANDER II 1 Penni  1871  AU
90.00 €(Approx. 97.20$ | 77.40£)
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Type : 1 Penni
Date: 1871
Quantity minted : 1500000
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,21 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
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Obverse


Obverse description : monogramme couronné du tsar Alexandre II.

Reverse


Reverse legend : 1 / PENNI / 1871.
Reverse description : dans le champ sur trois lignes.

Historical background


FINLAND - GRAND-DUCHY - ALEXANDER II

(2/03/1855-13/03/1881)

Finland belonged to Sweden. After the interview at Tilsitt between Napoleon I and Alexander I, the Tsar conquered it, a cession confirmed by the Treaty of Frederikshamn in 1809. The Principality of Finland was erected into a Grand Duchy by the Act of Borgaa the same year and the capital transferred from Torku to Helsinki in 1812. Finland then experienced a century of tranquility until the Revolution of 1905. It regained its independence in 1917 and had to defend it with arms against the Bolsheviks (December 6, 1917). Alexander II (04/29/1818 - 03/13/1881), son of Nicholas I, was a reforming tsar. He ends the Crimean War and signs the Treaty of Paris. He abolished serfdom in 1861 and carried out adjustments and reforms of Russian daily life. After the Polish revolt of 1863 and the increase in the number of nihilistic attacks, the emperor hardened his attitude and from liberal, returned to traditional autocracy. He was finally assassinated and his son Alexander III succeeded him..

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