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Lot 1109

Lot 1109

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Starting price 50,000 CHF
Result 50,000 CHF

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Alexander II. 1855-1881

Gold medal n. d., 20.52 g. Award Medal for Rescue of the Drowned. Unsigned, struck at St. Petersburg mint. Portrait of Alexander II right, obverse inscription "B. M. Alexander II Imp. of All Russia.". Rv. Three-line inscription "For rescue of the drowned". 29.3 mm. Diakov 643.7 var (R4). Bitkin vgl. H932 (R4). Von grösster Seltenheit. Einziges bekanntes Exemplar / Of the highest rarity. The only known specimen. Vorzüglich-FDC / About Uncirculated. Mit Originalhenkel / Original loop attached.

From the François Delamare Collection.
Most certainly from the Georg Michailovitsch Collection, auction Christie's Manson & Woods, London, July 1950, lot 420.
Most certainly from the Georg Michailovitsch Collection, auction A. Hess AG, Lucerne, October 1939, lot 536.