A Silver Russian Imperial Medal For The Capture Of Paris 1814 Auction illustrating a right-facing rifleman

illustrating a right-facing rifleman

Officer (bronze gilt and enamels

each of the disks illustrating the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst = RAD) insignia surrounded by four wheat sheaves forming a wreath

preceded in precedence only by the Medal of Valor

returned to Australia on July 1

A Silver Russian Imperial Medal For The Capture Of Paris 1814 Auction illustrating a right-facing riflemanIn silver, 28. 5 mm, edge nicks, light contact, better than very fine. Footnote: The medal was created on August 30, 1814 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I, to commemorate the 1914 campaign and the capture of Paris on March 19, 1814.