SINCONA Auction 84

Description

Gold medal 1828, 167.88 g. In the weight of 50 Ducats. On the peace treaty with Turkey. Dies from V. Alexeev. The mountain Ararat with the Ark Noah on the summit, in the foreground waves and rocks, in the background left shining sun, above the year "2242". Rv. View of a Persian city in front of the mountain Ararat topped with a Russian flag, above cross between the divided year 18 - 28, around rays of light. 64.4 mm. Diakov 476.1 (R5). Of the highest rarity. Extremely fine. Cabinet piece. Scratches on the edge.

The Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828 was the last major military conflict between the Russian Empire and Persia.
The war ended in 1828 following the occupation of Tabriz. The war had even more disastrous results for Persia than the 1804–1813 war, as the ensuing Treaty of Turkmenchay stripped Persia of its last remaining territories in the Caucasus, which comprised all of modern Armenia, the southern remainder of modern Azerbaijan, and modern Igdir in Turkey. Through the Gulistan and Turkmenchay treaties Persia lost all of its territories in the Caucasus to Russia. These territories had once extended throughout most of Transcaucasia and part of the North Caucasus.