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Nicholas I. 200th Anniversary of Alexander University in Finland 1840.
Silver commemorative medal. Signed by H. Gube. Medal. 57 mm. 76,9 gr. R3. A dark patina on the obverse, XF/UNC. Diakov 559.1.
Obverse with a left facing bust of Nicholas with the inscription in Latin NICOLAUS PRIMUS CAMENARUM DECUS ET PRAESIDIUM (Nicholas I inspirer and patron of muses). Signature on the lower edge of the bust GUBE. FECT. (made by Gube). Heinrich Gube (1805-1848) started his career as a medallist in Berlin in 1820. From 1830 onwards, he worked in St. Petersburg.
Reverse with a six-line inscription within a laurel wreath:
ACADEMIAE
ALEXANDRINAE
FENNORUM
SACRA SAECULARIA
SECUNDA
D . XV . JULII A . MDCCCXL
(Celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Finnish Alexander university 15 July 1840).
Beneath the ribbon of the wreath the initials C. A. of an unidentified engraver.
The university was founded in 1640 as an academy in Abo, then the capital of Finland. In 1828 the
academy moved to Helsingfors, nowadays Helsinki and recieved the offical name Imperial University of
Alexander I in Finland. Since 1917 it is the Finnish University of Helsinki.
Lit: Diakov4, 106.
Silver commemorative medal. Signed by H. Gube. Medal. 57 mm. 76,9 gr. R3. A dark patina on the obverse, XF/UNC. Diakov 559.1.
Obverse with a left facing bust of Nicholas with the inscription in Latin NICOLAUS PRIMUS CAMENARUM DECUS ET PRAESIDIUM (Nicholas I inspirer and patron of muses). Signature on the lower edge of the bust GUBE. FECT. (made by Gube). Heinrich Gube (1805-1848) started his career as a medallist in Berlin in 1820. From 1830 onwards, he worked in St. Petersburg.
Reverse with a six-line inscription within a laurel wreath:
ACADEMIAE
ALEXANDRINAE
FENNORUM
SACRA SAECULARIA
SECUNDA
D . XV . JULII A . MDCCCXL
(Celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Finnish Alexander university 15 July 1840).
Beneath the ribbon of the wreath the initials C. A. of an unidentified engraver.
The university was founded in 1640 as an academy in Abo, then the capital of Finland. In 1828 the
academy moved to Helsingfors, nowadays Helsinki and recieved the offical name Imperial University of
Alexander I in Finland. Since 1917 it is the Finnish University of Helsinki.
Lit: Diakov4, 106.