Live auction - fme_899090 - RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I Médaille, Rouble, Mariage royal du futur Alexandre II et Maria Alexandrovna, princesse de Hesse-Darmstadt
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Rouble, Mariage royal du futur Alexandre II et Maria Alexandrovna, princesse de Hesse-Darmstadt
Date: 1841
Metal : silver
Diameter : 35,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,84 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Slab
NGC : AU DETAILS
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée, présentant de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures
Catalogue references :
Bitkin 898
Obverse
Obverse legend : В∙К∙ МАРIЯ АΛЕКСАНДРОВНА ❃ В∙К∙ АΛЕКСАНДРЪ НИКОΛАЕВИЧЬ.
Obverse description : Têtes accolées de profil à gauche du prince héritier Alexandre Nikolaevich et la princesse héritière Maria Alexandrovna coiffée d’une couronne de roses. Signé : РѢЗАΛЪ ГУБЕ.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 16 АПРѢΛЯ / 1841 Г.
Reverse description : Au centre leur monogramme : AM. Au dessus, la couronne impériale. De part et d’autre, deux anges dont l’un tient un arc et l’autre un rameau fleuri. Signé : С.П.Б.
Historical background
RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I
(1/12/1825-2/03/1855)
Nicholas I (7/07/1796-2/03/1855), second son of Paul I, is the brother of Alexander I and 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 repressing the liberal movement of the Decembrists and then the uprising in Poland in 1831. After favoring the liberation of Greece, he poses as a defender of the Slavs and opposes the Turks. He finds on his way the English and the French. He died before the defeat of the Crimean War.
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