Russia, Imperial. A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Medal "In memory of Tsarskoye Selo, Berlin 1818-1843"

Item #EU21654

$216

(Медаль «В память Царского Села, Берлин 1818-1843 гг.»). Instituted in 1843. In bronze gilt, measuring 33.5 mm (w) x 38.7 mm (h) inclusive of its integral ring, edge nicks, bruised, contact marks, without ribbon, fine.

 

Footnote: In 1843, two infantry grenadier regiments celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the appointment of two princes of Prussia as chiefs: Friedrich Wilhelm, who later became the Prussian king Frederick William IV, and Prince Wilhelm, chief of the Kaluga infantry regiment.