Coins and Medals Department, Pushkin
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On the Death of Charles XII,
November 19 (30), 1718

Author

Unknown medallist of 18th cent. (Copy)

Materials

bronze

Size

39х31 мм

Provenance

Stakhovich Alexander Alexandrovich, 1983

Inventory №

252009

Obverse

CAROLVS XII. D .[G.] SVEC. GOTH. V. REX.;  full length portrait of Charles XII in three-quarter turn r. holding Field-Marshal's baton near altar with crown.; NAT. 1682 D. 17. IUNI./ OB. 1718. D. 11. DEC./ AD FRIEDRICHS=/ HALL.

Reverse

GVST. ADOLPH. D. G. SVEC. GOT[H. V]AND. REX. MAG. PR. F. D. E. C. D. I./CVM DEO ET VICTRICIBVS ARMIS; full length portrait of Gustav II Adolf in three-quarter turn r. holding scepter and sword near the altar; on altar-fire, VERBVM/ DEI; NAT. 1594. D. 9. DEC./ MORT. 1632. D. 6. NOV./ AD LVZAM.

Original author

Nürnberger Georg Freidrich

Literature

Hildebrand 1874, d. I (s. 600, № 216); Пискунова 1950 (№ 229); Russian Victories 2009, 178

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