A gold and enamel Jetton commemorating the Bicentenary of the Russian Navy and the Franco-Russian Alliance

BY KHLEBNIKOV, ST. PETERSBURG

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A gold and enamel Jetton commemorating the Bicentenary of the Russian Navy and the Franco-Russian Alliance
by Khlebnikov, St. Petersburg
With the cyphers of Peter the Great, Alexander III and Nicholas II surmounted by the Russian and French flags resting on an anchor, the lower part with the Russian inscription 'Taganrog Harbour', the reverse inscribed with the names A.P. Menneton, L.A. Korchinskii, V.N. Sobelev, M.P. Khanikov, A. Ganoto'

拍品专文

'Ganoto' is probably the Russian transliteration for Hanotaux, who was in 1896 the French Minister of Foreigh Affairs, who went to Russia with the French President Felix Faure.