Safe Seafaring in Baltics,
1704

Author	Müller/ Miller/ Myller Philipp Heinrich
Materials	tin
Size	45 мм
Provenance	From the collection of Alexander Stakhovich, 1983
Inventory №	251735

Obverse	PETRVS ALEXII FIL. D.G. RVSS. IMP. M. DVX MOSCOVIAE. Bust of Tsar Peter I facing right (type M1) Signed: M
Reverse	HIBERNO TEMPORE NIDIS INCVBAT ALCYONE./ TVM VIA TVTA MARIS/ Ovid. Metam.* Minerva with spear in her hand and collection of land-surveying instruments at her feet gesturing left to sunrise and sea with ships and the nest with the winter born-bird floating upon waves. In exergue: MARIS FINNICI/ SECVRITAS Star below (sign of medallist)
	Ovid. Metam. XI, 745-748: Perque dies placidos hiberno tempore septem Incubat Alcyone pendentibus aequore nidis: Tum via tuta maris: ventos custodit, et arcet Aeolus egressu.

Literature	Russian Victories 2009, 44
Keywords	Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Peter I, Stakhovich Alexander Alexandrovich, Shervinskiy Sergey Vasilievich, Müller/ Miller/ Myller Philipp Heinrich, Peter I (1682-1725), Baltic sea, Kronslot, Moscovia, Russia, Alcyone, Minerva (Athena), armour, ship, sea, spear, navigational instrument, helmet, St. Andrew's flag, mantle, laurel wreath, Metamorphoses, hybrid version of the coin, literary quotation, type of portrait by Mller (M 1), clouds, kingfisher, nest, HIBERNO TEMPORE NIDIS INCVBAT ALCYONE. TVM VIA TVTA MARIS Ovid. Metam.

Safe Seafaring in Baltics,1704