Russia Russian Empire Medal commemoration of the Treaty of Nystad 1721 B9

This medal was created in commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Northern War.

The silver medal was awarded to non-commissioned officers who participated in the Northern War.

The obverse inscription translates to: "St. Petersburg" and "Stockholm", as well as "Bound by the Peace Alliance", "In Nystad at the Termination of the War of 1721". The reverse inscription translates to: "To the Great Orthodox and Propitious Sovereign Peter I by Edict and Deeeds the Great Russian Emperor and Father in Two Decades of Triumph Having Pacified the North this Silver Russian Medal is Fervently Presented."

Denmark, Cast Iron Medal 1721 Peace Treaty of Nystad, Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia.

Peter I, the Great, Tsar of Russia, 1682 - 1725

"PETRUS MAGNUS RUSSORUM AUTOCRATOR VERUS IMPERII SUI AUGUSTUS."/ 14 lines: "EXANTLATIS PER QUATUOR ET QUOD EXCURRIT LUSTRAPLVSQUAM HERCULES BELLI LABORIBUS PACE NEOSTADII IN FINLANDIA 30 AUG: S· V· 1721 GLORIOSISSIME QUOD IPSA FATEBITUR INVIDIA SANCITA EXOPTATAM ARCTOO ORBI QUIETEM DONAVIT ·". In exergue: "A· SCHULTZ FEC· HAFN: D· A·". Forrer V, p. 407; Iversen LII/8.

Swedish Medallist:

Anton Schultz, active 1716 - 1724 in Copenhagen, thereafter in Moscow, † 1736

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