Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1620. Estimate $25.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. 1918-1923. AR 50 Kopeks (10.01 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; 50 KOПEEK above; all within laurel and oak wreath. On edge: ЧИCTOГO CEPEБPA 2 ЗOЛOTHИKA 10,5 ДOЛEЙ (П•Л). KM 83. NGC photo graded MS 63. Choice brilliant uncirculated.

Purchased from S. L. Lopresto, January 1998.

The first and only poltina of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.