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Fleet Maneuvers at Bornholm,
1716

Author

Unknown medallist of 18th cent.

Materials

silver

Weight

72,93 гр

Size

54 мм

Provenance

Stakhovich Alexander Alexandrovich, 1983

Inventory №

251902

Obverse

Bust of Tsar Peter I facing right on the pedestal with inscription in Russian: PETER THE GREAT, ALL-RUSSIAN, surrounded by war trophies

In exergue: OF YEAR 1716 (in Russian)    

Reverse

[Peter] RULES THE FOUR [fleets] (in Russian)

Neptune with trident and four flags in a chariot drawn by hippocampi to the right

In exergue: AT BORNHOLM (in Russian)    

Literature

Zavorotnaya 1988 (№ 69); Russian Victories 2009, 456

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