Poland 1840-MW 10 groszy

Steve Album sale 30, lot 1384

from the Mountain Groan Collection

The first specimen was lot 1384 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it sold for $94. The catalog description^[1] noted, "POLAND: Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, 1825-1855, AR 10 groszy, 1840-WW, NGC graded MS64." This type was struck 1835-41 and comes with and without mintmark. Ten groszy equaled five kopeks or one third of a zloty. Russian coinage for Poland ended in 1841.

Recorded mintage: 63,349,000 (sic).

Specification: 2.9 g, .192 fine silver, 19 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-113a.

Source:

• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
• Bitkin, Vladimir, Composite Catalogue of Russian Coins, Part II (1740-1917), Kiev: Moneta, 2003.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1835 10 groszy, Krakow mint
• 1840-MW grosz
• 1840 3 grosze
• 1840 5 groszy
• 1840 zloty
• 1840-ΗГ zloty
• 1840-MW 5 zlotych
• 1840-ΗГ 5 zlotych
• 1840-СПБ АЧ 20 zlotych
• 1841 3 grosze
• 1841 10 zlotych
• 1844 40 groszy
• Coins and currency dated 1840
• return to coins of Poland