Medal in memory of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, silver

An extremely rare medal in very good collector's condition. Private order. Silver. Good collector's condition. On the obverse of the medal there are three—quarter portraits of Emperor Nicholas II in the uniform of the 4th Life Guards of the Imperial family Rifle regiment and Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich in barmies and a Monomakh cap. There are beads of alternating dots and dashes around the circumference of the medal. On the reverse side of the medal is the inscription: "In memory of the / 300th anniversary | of the reign | of the House of Romanov | 1613-1913." On the original industrial link. Guarantee of authenticity.

A medal commemorating the celebrations also featured similar portraits of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov (the founder of the dynasty) and Emperor Nicholas II— its last representative. The regulations and medals "In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the House of Romanov" were approved by the Emperor on February 21, 1913. The design of the medal was developed by senior medallist of the St. Petersburg Mint A. F. Vasyutinsky. The author of the bas—relief on the obverse of the medal is the sculptor M. A. Kerzin. The medals were made of light bronze. Private firms and workshops on special orders cast medals from gilded silver and, in rare cases, from gold. Medals were worn on the chest on a ribbon of "coat of arms" colors — white, orange and black stripes of the same size. The medal was awarded:

all persons who, by February 21, 1913, were in public service in the military, naval, civil and court departments, members of the State Council and the State Duma, clergymen of all confessions; who served in elected positions in noble, zemstvo and city governments, freelancers and non-staff employees of both sexes in government institutions, retired officials of the marine and civil departments that had the right to wear a uniform in retirement, educational staff of both sexes in higher, middle and lower government institutions, artists of the Imperial theaters, sisters of Mercy of the Russian Red Cross Society, village elders, chairmen of parish courts, mining companies, village elders and their corresponding officials of volost and rural administrations, persons awarded the insignia of the Military Order;

junkers and pages of special classes; all ranks of the army, navy, separate corps of border guards and gendarmes, police, convoy teams and prison guards who were on active service by February 21, 1913, as well as representatives of the rural population who participated in the jubilee celebrations in the presence of the Emperor;

all those who took an active part in the preparation, organization and celebration of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the House of Romanov;

medallists, craftsmen and workers of the St. Petersburg Mint who made medals.

The persons listed in paragraph 2 received medals for free, while the rest of the awardees were given special certificates for the right to wear medals, which were purchased for a fee (including from private firms and workshops). More than 1.5 million medals were minted at the St. Petersburg Mint in 1913-1914. In total, by June 26, 1914, the Mint had received orders for 2,028,166 medals.