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RUSSIAN EMPIRE: Elizabeth, 1741-1762, tin medal, ND [1759]. EF

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RUSSIAN EMPIRE: Elizabeth, 1741-1762, tin medal, ND [1759]. EF
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RUSSIAN EMPIRE: Elizabeth, 1741-1762, tin medal, ND [1759], Diakov-105, 43mm, tin uniface die splash, Victory over the Prussians at Kunnersdorf medal by Timofei Ivanov, half-length portrait of Empress Elizabeth with titles in Russian around, EF. Timofei Ivanov, medallist and draughtsman, was born in St. Petersburg to the family of a coin maker at the St. Petersburg Mint called Ivan Ivanov (1729). He worked as an apprentice at the St. Petersburg Mint (from 1745), where he trained under Scottish master Benjamin Scott junior (from 1751). He attended drawing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1757–62). He designed over one hundred medals at the St. Petersburg Mint (1762–1801), celebrating important events during the reigns of Peter the Great, Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great.