CNG 87, Lot: 1975. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. 1918-1923. AV Chervonetz (22mm, 8.55 g, 12h). Leningrad (St. Petersburg) mint; P. V. Latishev, mintmaster. Dated 1923. OДИH ЧEPBOHEЦ, farmer standing facing, head right, sowing seeds; in background, plow to left, factories to right; 1923 to lower left / ПPOЛETAPИH BCEX CTPAH, COEДИHЖЙTECЬ!, coat-of-arms; P.C.Ф.C.P. in banner below. Friedberg 181; KM (Y) 85. AU.

From the John H. McWhinney Collection.