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Assistance treaties between Russia and France in Paris and St. Petersburg

Location Germany (1871-1948)
Year 1914
Type Advertising medallion
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Obverse description High-relief busts of a bearded Cossack soldier wearing a traditional papakha hat and a female figure representing Marianne wearing a Phrygian helmet, facing one another in a close embrace. The figures fill the central field, surrounded by a beaded border with the circular legend in Latin script.
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Reverse description A winged putto or genius wearing a jester's cap sits astride a terrestrial globe emerging from clouds, with the names FRANKREICH and RUSLAND visible on the globe's surface. The figure holds a scroll or baton in each hand. The field surrounding the globe is flanked by billowing clouds, with the inscriptions IN MEMORIAM, SEBASTOPOL 1854, and MOSKAU 1812 arranged around the central motif, and the maker's mark M. & W. ST. at lower left.
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