Peace of Nystad, Bronze Medal
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SKU: 02.RUS.0110.103.01.000
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Medal. Bronze. Fare-gilt. 51 mm. By A. Schultz. To Commemorate the Peace of Nystadt,1721. Diakov 57.20 (R4), Sm – unl, Tiregal 62. Laureate and armoured bust of Peter I right / 16 line legend. Rare, extremely fine.
This medal was created in commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Northern War.
The silver medal was awarded to non-commissioned officers who participated in the Northern War.
The obverse inscription translates to: "St. Petersburg" and "Stockholm", as well as "Bound by the Peace Alliance", "In Nystad at the Termination of the War of 1721". The reverse inscription translates to: "To the Great Orthodox and Propitious Sovereign Peter I by Edict and Deeeds the Great Russian Emperor and Father in Two Decades of Triumph Having Pacified the North this Silver Russian Medal is Fervently Presented."
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