Lot 3788

Description

USSR, Visit of Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and all Russia to the W.C.C. (World Council of Churches), 1973, in silver (44mm), obverse, Patriarch Pimen left, reverse, cross in fisherman’s boat; 1000th Anniversary of conversion of Russia to Christianity, 1988, in bronze (68mm), obverse, St Vladimir, Equal to the Apostles, standing on a cloud holding aloft a cross and bearing a shield, symbols of the orthodox faith which he brought to Russia in 988, reverse, Russian inscriptions. The second medal in plastic case, extremely fine; uncirculated. (2)