Russian Historical Medals from Various Properties


625


eight lines, small crown above, 39mm (Diakov 1655). About extremely fine


No. 51 in the portrait series of Russian Grand Dukes, Tsars and Tsarinas Fedor Alexeievich, a copper medal, struck c. 1770, by J.B. Gass, crowned bust facing three-quarters right, rev. legend in


£150-£200


626


Catherine I, a silver medal, struck c. 1770, by J. G. Waechter, bust left, rev. legend in seven lines, small crown above, 39mm, 22.99g (Diakov 1657). Very fine though reverse spotted, very rare


£240-£300 No. 54 in the portrait series of Russian Grand Dukes, Tsars and Tsarinas.


Diakov illustrates an example of the copper medal where the relief is shallower and there is no signature on the truncation. Confusion with the signature caused Forrer, who read it as G.W., to attribute the medal to Waechter's younger brother Georg Christian (BDM VI, 338). There is only a single contemporary medal of Catherine known, that for the accession to the throne, by Rastrelli


627


No. 56 in the portrait series of Russian Grand Dukes, Tsars and Tsarinas Anna Ioannovna, a copper medal, struck c. 1770, unsigned, crowned and mantled bust right, rev. crown above legend


in 8 lines, 39mm (Diakov 1659). Minor spotting, otherwise extremely fine, patinated £100-£150


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