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Auction 87  7 May 2014
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Lot 1870

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 6000 GBP
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, TURKEY and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them, Poland, Johann III, Sobieski (1629-1684-1696), The Eternal Peace Treaty, 1686, between Poland and Russia, Silvered-bronze Medal (1686), by Giovanni Battista Guglielmada, crowned and enrobed bust of Sobieski right, rev Sobieski standing clasping hands with Tsarevna Sophia Alexeevna, their feet on up-turned crescent moon (Turkey), PAX FVNDATA CVM MOSCHIS, in exergue DECENNALIA AVG, 65.5mm (Sokolov 39; cf Hcz 2523). A struck medal, sharp very fine and very rare.
This treaty confirmed the earlier Treaty of Andrusova, 1667, where Russia and Poland agreed control of separate parts of Ukraine and also not to enter into future treaties with the Turks. The pact was highly important in the Eastern European struggle against Turksh Tartars as, by signing it, Russia joined the anti-Turkish coalition of Poland, the Holy Roman Empire and Venice.

Estimate: £4000-6000
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