fme_504025 - RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I Médaille, Règne pour la gloire
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 185.00 €
Type : Médaille, Règne pour la gloire
Date: n.d.
Metal : copper
Diameter : 64 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Brasseux
Weight : 126,1 g.
Edge : lisse + main CUIVRE
Puncheon : main indicatrice (1845-1860) et CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron. Petite usure. Concrétions et petites incrustations dans les reliefs avec des traces de manipulation et nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : NICOLAS I EMPEREUR DE TOUTES LES RUSSIES..
Obverse description : Tête nue à droite de Nicolas Ier. Signé : BRASSEUX FT..
Reverse
Reverse legend : HAPCTBYN HA CAABY HAMB. (LÉGENDE EN CYRILLIQUE).
Reverse description : Livre ouvert (timbré de l’inscription Code des lois en russe) dans un médaillon coupé en 4 parties, un saint dans chacune (Nicolas, André, Vladimir et George). Divers symboles militaires et nautiques autour du médaillon et des branches de chêne.
Historical background
RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I
(1/12/1825-2/03/1855)
Nicholas I (7/07/1796-2/03/1855), second son of Paul I, is the brother of Alexander I and Grand Duke Constantin. On the death of his brother Alexander I, on December 1, 1825, and after the renunciation of his brother Constantine, he became Tsar of all the Russias and began by repressing the liberal movement of the Decembrists and then the uprising in Poland in 1831. After favoring the liberation of Greece, he poses as a defender of the Slavs and opposes the Turks. He finds on his way the English and the French. He died before the defeat of the Crimean War.
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