99.33g. 65mm. XF+/AU.
Medalier: I. G. Jaeger (I • G • I • F • on obverse; I • G • I • on reverse).
Diakov 150.1 (Ae - R1).
Obv.: Bust of Catherine II left, wearing a laurel wreath and mantle with the star and sash of an order.
Inscription around:
ЕКАТЕРИНА. II.
(Catherine II).
Rev.: Scene of workers moving the enormous granite monolith, surrounded by spectators; on top of the stone are drummers and stonemasons.
Inscription above:
ДЕРЗНОВЕНIЮ ПОДОБНО.
(Worthy of boldness).
In exergue:
ГЕНВАРЯ • 20 1770.
(January 20, 1770).
The medal commemorates the transport of the colossal granite monolith, later used as the base of the Monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, known as the Bronze Horseman. The block, weighing over 1,500 tons, was moved from the village of Lakhta to the Neva embankment under the supervision of the engineer Marin Carburis, using an ingenious system of rollers and levers. This feat of engineering, unprecedented in 18th-century Europe, was celebrated by Catherine II as a symbol of human determination and the enduring link between her reign and that of Peter the Great.
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