Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1619. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. 1918-1923. AR Rouble (20.03 g, 12h). Petrograd (St. Petersburg) mint; P.V. Latishev, mintmaster. Dated 1922. ПPOЛETAPИИ BCEX CTPAH, COEДИHЖЙTECЬ!, arms of Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic: shield decorated with hammer and sickle set over rising sun; all within grain ear wreath and set on ornate tablet inscribed P.C.Ф.C.P. / Large pierced Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star); 1 in center; 1922 below; PУБЛЬ above; all within laurel and oak wreath. On edge: ЧИCTAГO CEPEБPA 4 ЗOЛOTHИKA 21 ДOЛEЙ (П•Л). KM 84. NGC photo graded PF 64. Brilliant Proof.

Purchased from World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen), October 1980.

This was the first type to appear after the fall of the Romanovs and was struck for only two years. This specimen is of a scarce date and assayer. The design was not as “politically correct” as the rouble described in lot ___.