alexbq2

I'm not a medal collector. But once in a while I pick something up for fun. Here's my new acquisition, a medal struck to commemorate the birth of Pavel Petrovich: http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=962143 I found some references to a similar medal: http://www.numismat-invest.ru/view_img.php...img2=173712.gif "This medal is a later restrike (late 18th - 19th century) of the medal struck during the reign of Catherine the Great to commemorate the birth of Pavel Petrovich (future Paul I). Original die-stamps were executed by Georg Christian Waechter and Samoila Yudin. The die-stamps for this medal were copied by Samoila Yudin and Timofei Ivanov. Beneath bust truncation: TIMOFEI IVANOV. Diakov#105.3(R1), Smirnov.238" My medal is signed by Waechter not Ivanov, so mine must be the original. I'm curious as to what the Medal references have to say about this medal. Thanks in advance!

I think the eagle was adopted by the imperial France while the rooster is the symbol of the Republic?

Thank you for this very interesting information Constanius! This certainly puts things into perspective (historically).

Oh look at what they did to the Russian eagle Why is this San Francisco token in French? And why is this celebration taking place almost 3 months after "le fait accompli"? What? the good news did not travel fast in those days?

Thanks Gx! I saw that the characters were from a larger coin of Elizeveta, but I just didn’t put 2 and 2 together. I guess it was just too late or too early for me

I was just going to ask the same question All I can tell is that the obverse has a line that spells out a part of Elizaveta, the reverse seems to have a Russian “P”. What’s strange is that the font of these partial inscriptions is noticeably larger than the regular font on the grivennik, the meaning of that “P” on reverse is unclear to me. Definitely not made out of a 1755 5 kop as the seller suggested http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=270247367959