CNG 87, Lot: 2184. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsardom of Rus. Petr I Alekseyevich Veliky (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. Æ Medal (47mm, 48.00 g, 12h). Commemorating the Treaty of Constantinople. By F. W. Gass and either I. Kozmin or I. Konstantinov. Dually-dated 1696 and 1700. PETRVS · ALEXEEWITZ · M · D · TZAR · M · D · MOSCOV ·, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / QUA · VICIT · VICTOS · PROTEGIT · ILLE . MANU (the same hand which protects the vanquished vanquishes, –Claudius), Petr seated left on throne, resting hand upon Russian shield and freeing civic deity of Azof kneeling right and in chain held by Russian soldier with captured Ottoman shield; in background, Abundance standing facing, holding cornucopia; in three lines in exergue, VICTA · ASOF · MOCHIS · 1696 ·/FACTA CONCESSAQUE ·/PAGE · 1700 (Azov having been vanquished by the Russians in 1696, peace was made and granted four years later). Cf. Moneta 60, 7 note (engraver); Iversen series X, p. 9. Superb EF, attractive brown surfaces, die break and a few light deposits on the obverse.