Live auction - fwo_548705 - RUSSIA - CATHERINE I Rouble 1726 Saint-Pétersbourg
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| Estimate : | 1 000 € |
| Price : | 550 € |
| Maximum bid : | 712 € |
| End of the sale : | 03 December 2019 19:48:04 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Rouble
Date: 1726
Mint name / Town : Saint-Pétersbourg
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 42 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,14 g.
Edge : inscrite en relief (rouble russe de l'Hôtel des Monnaies de Moscou)
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie présente une usure importante. Le revers est frappé avec un coin très abîmé, en témoignent les multiples cassures. Fine patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).
Obverse description : Buste de Catherine Ire à gauche, avec une écharpe drapée et fixée par une broche sur la poitrine. Les cheveux ornés d'un rang de perles.
Obverse translation : (Catherine, impératrice et autocrate de toute la Russie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).
Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale surmontée de trois couronnes impériales, celle du milieu étant plus grande. Dans les serres de droite le sceptre, dans celles de gauche un globe crucigère.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle, valeur rouble, 1726).
Historical background
RUSSIA - CATHERINE I
(1725-05/17/1727)
Catherine was born around 1684 in Livonia. She comes from a modest background and in 1701 married a dragoon of Charles XII, King of Sweden. In 1702, during the capture of Marienbourg, she was taken prisoner by the Russians and became the mistress of Menshikov and then of Tsar Peter the Great. She was crowned Empress in 1724 and succeeded Peter the Great the following year. She died in Saint Petersburg on May 17, 1727.
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