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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 331

Ivan Ivanovich Betskoy, Award Medal from the Senate, 20 November 1772, silver medal by J.C.G. Jaeger, draped bust right, wearing collar and badge of the Order of St Andrew, signed i.g.iaeger.f. below truncation, rev. ´For love of the Fatherland´, woman and putti beside an obelisk, the monogram of Betskoy on a shield, the Moscow Senate building in the background, signed i.g.i. low left, ´from the Senate´ and date in exergue, 65mm. (Diakov 157.1; Smirnov 269b), light scratches on obverse, very fine, very rare Estimate £ 500-600

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