Russia, Imperial. An 1867 Russian Ethnographic Exhibition Table Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 33 (w) x 40

measuring 33 (w) x 40 mm (h)

rather than a veterans’ organization

(Nationalsozialistischer Reichskriegerbund Ärmelabzeichen)

Coast Artillery Company

one minor enamel flake to enamels in the crown

Russia, Imperial. An 1867 Russian Ethnographic Exhibition Table Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 33 (w) x 40Constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a central raised Romanov imperial eagle clutching an orb and sceptre, circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic inscription indicating that the medal was issued to commemorate the 1867 Russian Ethnographic Exhibition, the reverse bearing an inscription indicating that the medal was instituted in 1863 for recognition of prize winning participants in the event, unmarked, measuring 61. 60 mm in diameter, in extremely