Russia, Imperial. An 1873 Commemorative Medallion For The Dedication Of The Catherine The Great Monument In St. Petersburg United Republic of The order was created in

The order was created in 1886 by Emperor Dong Khanh as a civil and military award and was also awarded by French Colonial government

and numbered 127

with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves with a raised mobile swastika in the center

Footnote: Charles Martin Knack was born on July 10

Russia, Imperial. An 1873 Commemorative Medallion For The Dedication Of The Catherine The Great Monument In St. Petersburg United Republic of The order was created inConstructed of a silvered zink alloy, the obverse bearing a central raised depiction of the Catherine the Great Monument in Ostrovsky Square in St. Petersburg, circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic dedication from Tsar Alexander II, the reverse bearing a Cyrillic dedication and date of 1873, unmarked, measuring 36 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine condition.