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Medals and Coins of the Age of Peter the Great.The Hermitage Collection. 1974
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Catalogue des monnaies Russes, Petrov / Catalog of Russian Coins. V. I. Petrov. 1964
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Medals and Coins of the age of Peter the Great. The Hermitage Collection. 1974
The material of the present album is directly connected with the outstanding personality of Peter the Great, who took a steady interest in medals as historical documents. A number of medals reproduced in this book originally belonged to Peter's personal collection, which formed the basis of the numismatic Kunstkammer of the Academy of Sciences, later transformed to the Hermitage.
Size: 29,5 cm X 22,5 cm. Hardcover. Used. Condition very good. 68 photographs in full colour. 120 pages. Languages: English and Russian.
Among the art treasures left us by that stormy epoch of Russian history, the late seventeenth and the first quarter of the eighteenth centuries coins and medals occupy a prominet place. Their importance as a source of historical knowledge was fully appreciated by Lomonosov who referred to them in his works as 'numismatic history'. The material of the present album is directly connected with the outstanding personality of Peter the Great, who took a steady interest in medals as historical documents. A number of medals reproduced in this book originally belonged to Peter's personal collection, which formed the basis of the numismatic Kunstkammer of the Academy of Sciences, later transformed to the Hermitage.
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Medals and Coins of the age of Peter the Great. The Hermitage Collection. 1974
The material of the present album is directly connected with the outstanding personality of Peter the Great, who took a steady interest in medals as historical documents. A number of medals reproduced in this book originally belonged to Peter's personal collection, which formed the basis of the numismatic Kunstkammer of the Academy of Sciences, later transformed to the Hermitage.
Size: 29,5 cm X 22,5 cm. Hardcover. Used. Condition very good. 68 photographs in full colour. 120 pages. Languages: English and Russian.