Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1621. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 1923-1991. AR Rouble (20.01 g, 12h). Workers issue. Leningrad mint; P.V. Latishev, mintmaster. Dated 1924. Worker standing facing, looking left and resting right hand on shoulder of farmer, standing right, and pointing to right with left hand; farmer holds reaper in right hand and sickle in left; behind him, grain; to right of worker, factory with radiate sun rising above; 1924г in exergue / ПPOЛETAPИИ BCEX CTPAH, COEДИHЖЙTECЬ!, arms of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; script CC CP flanking; OДИH/PУБЛЬ in two lines below. On edge: ЧИCTAГO CEPEБPA 18 ГPAMM (43.21 Ñ.) П•Л. KM 90.1. NGC photo graded PF 65. A gem specimen with frosted high points in blazing Proof.

Purchased from Frank Draskovic, December 1984.

The second type of Soviet rouble with the new very contemporary Soviet design theme.