Live auction - fme_993312 - RUSSIA - CATHERINE II Médaille, 50e anniversaire de la fondation de l’Académie impériale des sciences
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, 50e anniversaire de la fondation de l’Académie impériale des sciences
Date: 1776
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver GASS P. W.
Weight : 7,45 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine marron hétérogène avec un reste de rouge de frappe
Catalogue references :
Diakov171.4
Obverse
Obverse legend : ПЕТРЪ ВЕЛИКIИ ИМПЕР. // ОСНОВ. АКАД. / 1725.
Obverse description : Tête masculine de profil à droite de Pierre le Grand.
Obverse translation : Pierre le Grand, empereur, Académie fondée en 1725.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ЕКАТЕРИНА. II. IМП. ВСЕРОС. // ПОКРОВ. АКАД / 1776.
Reverse description : Tête féminine laurée de profil à gauche de Catherine II de Russie.
Reverse translation : Catherine II, impératrice, protectrice de l’Académie.
Historical background
RUSSIA - CATHERINE II
(07/17/1762-11/17/1796)
Catherine (2/05/1729-17/11/1796) was the greatest tsarina after Peter the Great. She succeeded her husband, Pierre III, who was deposed in 1762 before being assassinated by the Orloff brothers. His very long reign brought Russia into the "Age of Enlightenment". Friend of the philosophers including Diderot from whom she bought his library, liberal, she nevertheless reinforced the despotism and the nationalization of Russia. She fought against the Turks and was an opponent of the French Revolution.
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