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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 341

Nicholas I, Commemorating the relief of Amsterdam in 1813, bronze medal by F. Tolstoy and A. Klepikov, bust of Nicholas I left, wearing helmet and armour, holding spear and shield, signed ´a. kle´ low right, rev. a Russian soldier, in Roman armour, defends a kneeling female City of Amsterdam against a prostrate French warrior, signed in exergue ´medal designed by Count Tolstoy, engraved by A. Klepikov 1836´ and the date 1813 below, 65mm. (Smirnov 384), nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 100-150

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