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A GROUP OF THREE MEDALS
Lot 305

A GROUP OF THREE MEDALS

RUSSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed28 May 2012

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GBP 10,000

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A GROUP OF THREE MEDALS
RUSSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Comprising one gold medal for zeal, period of Nicholas II; one Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna coronation medal, 1896; one 'INGENIO ET STUDIO' medal from the St Petersburg Pharmaceutical Society to Alexander Arkadievich Suvorov, Prince of Italy, Count Rymniksky, 28 February 1864
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) diameter and smaller (3)

Specialist note

For comparable gold and silver medals for zeal, see Prince Dmitri Romanov, The Orders, Medals and History of Russia, Copenhagen, 2000, pp. 224-225, nos. 200, 201.
For a similar coronation medal, see V. Smirnov, Opisanie Russkikh Medalei, St Petersburg, 1908, no. 1101b.