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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 343

Nicholas I, Opening of the Pulkovo Observatory, 1839, gold medal by H. Gube, head right, signed h. gube fecit on truncation, rev. view of the Pulkovo observatory surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac, signed ´Architect A. Brullov, cut by H. Gube´ on the ground line, 224.21g (Diakov 548.1-R5; Smirnov 499), light marks in the fields, particularly on the reverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 8,000-12,000

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£57,000