Russia, Imperial. A 1771 Table Medal For Count Orlov’s Rescue Of Moscow, By Georg Christian Waechter Newly Listed Colleges of the Advocates of

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(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst IV

25mm x 37mm

with twisted gold wires wound tightly from the knot-shaped gilt bronze to the crossguard

Russia, Imperial. A 1771 Table Medal For Count Orlov’s Rescue Of Moscow, By Georg Christian Waechter Newly Listed Colleges of the Advocates ofConstructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised and leftward facing bust of Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov in high relief and exceptional detail, circumscribed by name and title in Russian Cyrillic, the reverse bearing a raised depiction of Orlov in a Roman style uniform and mounted on a horse, superimposed over a detailed Moscow skyline (symbolizing Orlovs successful initiatives to quell the plague and civil unrest which had gripped the city),