What is this token? [решено]

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I got this token today, and wondered what it was and how much it is worth.  The reverse needs to be mirrored. It is 47 mm wide and very thick and heavy. I have found that the man on the front is Peter the Great. The man on the back looks like Neptune holding a trident watching a battle against a fort. I assume this is celebrating a victory for the Russians. I found a similair token with the same front but different battle, and it sold for about $150, I forget where. I can't find ANY information about it. All info will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Цитата: nthnI can't find ANY information about it. All info will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 I mirrored (and cropped) the second image; nice token (can I buy it ?!).  :)

                

EDIT: I found straight away that second image, like your reverse ...
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/37847.html
as I typed   medal PETRVS Neptune MDCCII   in a Search.

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Details (from the item in National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London):
Commemorating the Capturing of Shlisselburg.
RUSSIA, Tsardom of Rus. Petr I Alekseyevich Veliky (Peter the Great). 1682-1725.
Medal (47mm, 48.70 g, 12h).

Obverse: Bust of Czar Peter I, laureate, in armour (cuirassed) and draped in a cloak (right).
Legend: PETRVS . ALEXII . FIL . D . G . RVSS . IMP . M . DVX MOSCOVIÆ

Reverse: Storming of the fortifications at Nöteborg, batteries in foreground; Neptune reclining right, holding a trident in right hand, and a key in left, lying below.
Legend: NOTTEBVRGVM . NVNC . SCHLVSSELBVRGUM
  (Once Nöteborg, now Shlisselburg)
Exergue (three lines): POST . ANN . XC . ABHOSTB . RECVP . D . XII OCTOB S V MDCCII
  (After 90 years, recovered from the enemies after on the 12th of October, O.S.)

The Artist: T. Iwanov (Timophey Ivanov)
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 Although, with you saying you had found one with a different reverse, I see that one has a different obverse; as portrait and lettering are slightly different. Also the one I found is different metal. But it does show most of what it was made for, and dated MDCCII (1702) and made in 1703 to commemorate the battle.
 Trying to see what yours has on it; something like ...
Legend: PETRVS . ALEXEEWITZ . M . D . TZAR . M . D . MOSCOV .
  (PETER, SON OF ALEXEY, M D, TSAR, GREAT DUKE OF MOSCOW)
The underlined meaning unknown, and second M D is M. DVX. abbreviated. Maybe >
  (Peter, son of Alexey, by the Grace of God, great Tsar and Grand Duke of Moscow)
which I found somewhere, but D G is Dei Gratia (by the Grace of God), and not M D letters?

 The first link below has these excerpts, about two-thirds down the long page >
The Great Northern War (1700-1721) and Associated Medals

The peace treaty with Turkey was signed on August 18, 1700, in Constantinople. Internal peace was thus restored, if only temporarily. Now Russia was ready for another war: this time, with the Swedish King Karl XII (Fig. 11). Russia fought the Great Northern War of 1700-1721 with Sweden to gain access to the Baltic Sea and regain control over the territories in the northwest that it had lost in 1613.

The first major victory of the Russian army against the Swedes in the north was the capture of Schlüsselburg in October 1702, under the command of B.P. Sheremetev. The reverse of the medal commemorating this event (Fig. 14) depicts the reclining figure of Neptune holding a trident and key and watching a bombardment of the city; a fortress in fire and smoke is visible in the background. The inscription in the exergue refers to the return of the territory that once belonged to Russia: POST ANN. XC. AB HOSTE | RECVP . D . XII OCTOB SV | MDCCII [AFTER NINETY YEARS TAKEN BACK FROM THE ENEMY. 12 OCTOBER (OLD STYLE) 1702].

Other links I found (from which I merged/adapted with some of the above information):
http://ansmagazine.com/Summer06/Russian

http://www.coins-and-medals.ru/medals/db/russia/peter_1/capture_schlisselburg/215_251706.shtml?en
 
  :wiz:  That's about all I could find. Took me a couple of hours, so after all that maybe you could give (or sell) me the medal for my troubles!

P.S. I don't think the topic can be marked solved yet -
Different obverse image and lettering
Different metal
No idea of value (I'll pay you that $10 you paid, plus postage)  :)
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Thank you  a lot, but I think I will wait until I find more about it. The inscription below the battle is "POST ANR . XC . ARMOSTE
REGVP D XIIOGTOESV
MDCCII"

I appreciate your efforts, and after I pen down what it is, then I will consider offers.
Here are my 2 cents of info on it:
What you have is a copy of the medal commemorating the capture of Swedish fortress Noteburg by Russian army on October 11, 1702. After the capture, the fortress was renamed by Peter the Great to Schlisselburg and still exists today under this name.
The original bronze medal was minted in Russia as a part of 25 (28 with some mules) commemorating medals and all dies for this series were made by the famous Austrian goldsmith Philip Heinrich Müller in Augsburg in 1713-1714.
During the reign of  Ekaterina II (circa 1750-1760) the medal was officially copied at St-Peterborough mint by Timophey Ivanov  who might have used a different version of Peter's image. This copy was made of tin alloy and is probably what you have.
As for the price - the original bronze medal in perfect condition goes in Russia for about $750 on an auction  while I was unable to find anything on the price of the later tin alloy copy.
Для всього свій час, і година своя кожній справі під небом
I think I found it? http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=270&lot_id=121350
 Almost - lettering on yours ends in MOSCOV not MOSCOVIÆ
and has ALEXEEWITZ not  ALEXII and so on.  8.
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

Quote: nthnI think I found it? http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=270&lot_id=121350

Yes, you are right - this is a later copy made by T. Ivanov. Good luck with the price though - the one that sold was of MUCH better quality than yours.
Для всього свій час, і година своя кожній справі під небом
 Also, in your own second image, is the reverse actually like that - everything backwards - or just a picture fault somehow?  (8  :)
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
The pictures is as ZacUK showed. I scanner mirrored it. The guy on the front is correct.

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