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1514 - 1.5 roubles, St Petersburg, 1836, AG 31.
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Estimate €100,000
Description
1.5 roubles, St Petersburg, 1836, AG 31.04 g. Obverse: Nude bust of the Tsar facing right. Engraver’s name, Paul Utkin, in full below. Reverse: Bust of the Tsarina facing right, in a central medallion. Busts of her seven children all around. Ref: Bitkin 888 (R2), Dav. 286, Sev. 3181, KM#172.1 Formerly of the Silberstein Collection Grading: PCGS MS 63 Condition: FDC. Magnificent. Very Rare This coin, bearing the engraver’s full signature, is one of the greatest rarities of Russian coinage. It depicts virtually the entire family, as Nicholas I had wished. The reverse features a portrait of his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, surrounded by seven of their ten children, in the following order: Alexander (the future Alexander II), Maria, Olga, Constantine, Nicholas, Michael and Alexandra.
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