Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

RUSSIA, Central Asian Exhibition, Moscow, 1891, a bronze medal by A. Griliches Jr and Sr, crowned arms of Moscow, rev. caravan moving left through desert landscape, sunset in background, all within ornate border, 67mm (Diakov 1061.1; Smirnov 997). A few edge knocks, obverse extremely fine, reverse nearly so but scratched in upper field, very rare £200-£300