103567 | RUSSIA, SWEDEN & FINLAND. Peace of Nystadt bronze Medal.

103567  |  RUSSIA, SWEDEN & FINLAND. Peace of Nystadt (Uusikaupunki) bronze Medal. Issued circa late 18th century. Commemorating the end of the Great Northern War (60mm, 12h). Unsigned, but by Samuel Judin.

 

СОЮЗОМЪ МИРА СВЯЗУЕМЫ (bound by the bond of peace...), Noah's Ark sailing left across Gulf of Finland; in background, city views of St. Petersburg (to left) and Stockholm (to right), joined together under a rainbow; above, dove flies left, with branch in beak; in three lines in exergue, ВНЕИСТАТѢ / ПО ПОТОПѢ СѢВЕРНЫЯ / ВОИНЫ 1721 (...after the flood that was the Northern War) // Legend in 13 lines: В•И•Б•Щ / ГОСУДАРЮ / ПЕТРУ • I • / IMEHEMЪ • IДѢΛАМИ • ПРЕДИВHЫMИ / ВЕΛИКОМУ • / РОССИСКОМУ • ІМПЕРАТОРУ • / И ОТЦУ / ПОДВАДЕСЯТОΛѢТНЫХЪ • ТРІУМΘОВЪ / СѢВЕРЪ • УМИРИВШЕМУ • / СИЯ • ИЗЪЗΛАТА • ДОМАШНЕГО / МЕДАΛІЯ / УСЕРДНЕІШЕ • ПРИНОСИ / ТСЯ • (to the sovereign Peter I—the great Russian emperor, father of fifty-year triumphs, and pacifier of the north—this medal is most zealously presented). Diakov 57.2. NGC MS-63 Brown. Highly impressive, with pleasing red-brown surfaces and some appealing lustrous brilliance in the fields. Compare to an inferior example [NGC MS-62 Brown and with noted pencil marks on the reverse] which realized a hammer of £400 ($640 after the buyer's fee) in Noonans 319, lot 1569 (6 March 2025) and a similar specimen that realized a hammer of €900 ($1,382 after the buyer's fee) in Westfälische Auktionsgesellschaft 66, lot 1426 (16 September 2013).

 

Following studies in Europe, Peter the Great returned to his native Russia with a desire to modernize his nation and turn her into a regional power upon the seas. Previously, Sweden had established herself as a dominant empire within the Baltic, but Peter's successful campaign of various allies ultimately saw a Russian victory in the Great Northern War, albeit after some 20 years. With victory secured through the Treaty of Nystadt, Russia added to her territorial holdings around the Baltic, further establishing her as a serious broker in European affairs going forward. This medal, designed by Samuel Judin sometime in the latter half of the 18th century, revives an earlier type designed at the time of the Treaty. It alludes to the war as the biblical flood, with Noah's Ark sailing under a rainbow, along with a dove overhead, indicative that the longstanding stryfe was finally over.

 

Upload: 17 June 2026.