Live auction - fme_769187 - POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - NICHOLAS I Médaille, Insurrection de Novembre 1830-1831
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 135 € |
| Maximum bid : | 135 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 October 2022 18:50:01 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Insurrection de Novembre 1830-1831
Date: 1831
Metal : copper
Diameter : 45,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver ROUVET
Weight : 39,88 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine marron, de l’usure sur les reliefs et des traces de manipulation dans les champs
Obverse
Obverse legend : FATA ASPERA VINCES // À L’EXERGUE : 7 SEPTEMBRE 1831.
Obverse description : Aigle tenant un étendard polono-lituanien, champ de bataille à l’arrière plan et église byzantine. Signé : ROUVET.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ILS REVIVRONT // SOWINSKI / KICKI / KAMINSKI / ZYMIRSKI / MYCIELSKI / SKARSZEWSKI // PARIS 1831.
Reverse description : Représentation d’une urne sur un pilier, accosté d’une palme et d’une flèche.
Historical background
POLAND - KINGDOM OF POLAND - NICHOLAS I
(1/12/1825-2/03/1855)
Nicolas I (7/07/1796-2/03/1855) is the second son of Paul I and the brother of Alexander I and the Grand Duke Constantin. On the death of his brother Alexander I, on December 1, 1825, and after the renunciation of his brother Constantine, he became Tsar of all the Russias and began by suppressing the liberal movement of the Decembrists. He put down the uprising in Poland in 1831. After promoting the liberation of Greece, he posed as a defender of the Slavs and opposed the Turks. He found on his way the English and the French. He died before the defeat of the Crimean War.
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