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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 210

x Peace of Tilsit 1807, silver medal, by Abramson, 42mm, obverse, busts of Napoleon, Alexander, and Wilhelm, reverse the sun setting beneath the ocean´s waves (Pax in Nummis 743; Julius 1754), with later ring suspension, good fine and rare Estimate £ 40-50The Peace of Tilsit between France, Russia, and Prussia was signed on 7.7.1807. It marked the end of the Fourth Coalition between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander of Russia. The aim of the coalition had been to partition Europe between Russia and France; under pressure from the latter, the King of Prussia decided to cede Hesse-Cassel, Brunswick, and part of Hanover, to France, prior to the peace treaty being signed in the town of Tilset.

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