Russia - 1812

Merchant's Medal
Obverse - Russia - Medal - 1812 Reverse - Russia - Medal - 1812
Obverse - The All-Seeing Eye on a triangle, radiated.
Legend, 1812 rOAb. (in Cyrillic letters)
Reverse -

A Cyrillic legend.

Size, 28 mm.
 
From one of my friends on the CoinPeople forum comes the following info:
'On the reverse, shows an inscribed bible text, "НЕ НАМЪ, НЕ НАМЪ, А ИМЯМИ ТВОЕМУ" or read as “Nie nam, nie nam a imeni Tvoemu”, which is translated to “Not unto Us, Not unto Us, but in Thy Name”.'
 
Apparently about 40,000 of these were issued and another version was issued 100 years later for descendants of the original recipients.

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