Russia, Imperial. A Medal For The Annexation Of Crimea Auction at one period the War

at one period the War Office announced that it had subsumed Cumming's part of the bureau into MI1(C) and this was what the Secret Service would henceforth be known as

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Riegersdorf/Bodenbach

reverse centre presenting the Saxon coat of arms (alternating horizontal black and gold stripes with a diagonal rue crown)

machine embroidered on field green wool

Russia, Imperial. A Medal For The Annexation Of Crimea Auction at one period the WarConstructed of tin, the obverse bearing a raised and rightward facing bust of Empress Catherine II (the Great), circumscribed by name and title in Cyrillic, the reverse bearing a detailed map of Crimea, southern Ukraine, and the Sea of Azov, situated above a Cyrillic inscription indicating that the medal was issued to commemorate the 1783 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire (presented as 8 April according to the Old Style calendar, instead of