Russia 1890-SP 1/4 kopek
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This specimen was lot 1538 in Stack's Bowers ANA auction (Chicago, August 2014), where it sold for $1,527.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "RUSSIA. 1/4 Kopek, 1890-CNB. NGC MS-66 RB. Mintage combined with the 1889 issue. Finest graded at both NGC and PCGS. Highly lustrous with much mint red still present." The production of the copper coinage was farmed out to branch mints in the early and mid nineteenth century but after 1876 St. Petersburg was the sole producer of this denomination, also known as a polushka. Despite the small mintage, this date is common.
Recorded mintage: 181,000 for 1889-90.
Specification: copper, 3 g reported by the SCWC but likely 0.80 g as reported for Y-47.1.
Catalog reference: KM Y-29; Bit-213.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Bitkin, Vladimir, Composite Catalogue of Russian Coins, Part II (1740-1917), Kiev: Moneta, 2003.
- Brekke, B. F., The Copper Coinage of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, New York, Galerie des Monnaies, 1977, with 1987 supplement.
- Harris, Robert P., Guidebook of Russian Coins, 1725 to 1970, Santa Cruz, CA: Bonanza Press, 1971.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, The August 2014 Chicago ANA Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Featuring the David O'Harrow Collection, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2014.
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