Coins and Medals Department, Pushkin
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On the Narva Victory of Swedish army,
November 19 (30), November 20 (Swedish calendar), 1700

Author

Wermuth Christian

Materials

silver

Weight

5,43 гр

Size

20,8 мм

Provenance

Demidov Pavel Grigorievich, 1912

Inventory №

11139

Obverse

Bust of Charles XII r. wearing wig, cuirass and mantle, below, C.W.; around, D. G. CAROL'. -XII. REX SVECIAE.

Reverse

Three crowns with words GOTT MIT UNS; around, DIE DREY KRONEN/ TREV BELOHNEN.

Edge

QVINI CENTENOS ET CENTENI DECIES MILLENOS FVGABVNT. LEV. 26 *.

Comments

Lev. 26:8, Persequentur quinque de vestris centum alienos et centum ex vobis decem milia cadent inimici vestri in conspectu vestro gladio.

Notes

Same dies like medal on the Victory of Swedish army on the Navra battle

Literature

Hildebrand 1874, d. I (s. 504, № 47); Пискунова 1950 (№ 15); Russian Victories 2009, 154

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