COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Russia, Nicholas I, Russian-Turkish War Series, Passage across the Balkan Mountains 1829, uniface Tin Trial of the reverse of the medal by A Klepikov, after Tolstoy, Russian soldier in a mountainous landscape, accompanied by a double-headed eagle (Diakov 1790); with a pierced uniface electrotype of the reverse of the same medal. First about extremely fine and very rare. (2)
ex Baldwin's Auction 13, 28 May 1997, lot 2247
Estimate: £150-200