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Obverse	PETRUS ALEXIEWITZ - TZAR MAG. RUSS. IMP. Bust of Tsar Peter I facing right Signed: Du Vivier.F.
Reverse	VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO* Fama with two trumpets flying left, behind landskape with mountains, sea and rising sun In exergue: LUTET. PARISI. M.D. CC. XVII.
	Verg. Aen. IV, 173 - 177: Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud uelocius ullum: mobilitate uiget uiresque adquirit eundo, parua metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit.

Literature	Russian Victories 2009, 61
Keywords	Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), St. George the Victorious, Osherov Sergey Alexandrovich, Peter I, Duvivier Jean, Peter I (1682-1725), Paris, Fama, armour, standard, ermined mantle, wig, Aeneid, aphorism, literary quotation, mountain, sun, horn, VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO

Visit to Paris Mint,1717