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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 332

Catherine II, Annexation of the Crimea and Kuban, 1783, gold medal by A. Abramson, catharinae ii felicitati saecvli, laureate and diademed bust right, signed abramson below, rev. virtvti potemkini crimea et kvbania receptis, Athena standing holding cornucopia, presents an olive branch to two kneeling figures of Crimea and Kuban, s. klopman mdcclxxxiii in exergue, 50mm., 52.64g. (Diakov 196.7-R5; Smirnov--), some light scratches both sides, good very fine, very rare Estimate £ 5,000-8,000

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