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Auction: 4023 - English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals (incl. Railway Medals)
Lot: 581

Russia, Battle of Tchesm, 1770, laudatory medal of the Russian Naval College on Count Orlov's victory, by I. B. Gass, AE 90 mm., half length bust of Count Orlov right wearing Order and plumed helmet, holding baton, rev, map of the bay of Tchesm showing the Russian and Turkish fleets, inscription and date in exergue (as Sm.264 but bust right), cast, some tooling in obverse field, very fine, scarce

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£360