Russia 1914-SP BC 15 kopeks
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This specimen was lot 2903 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $90. The catalog description[1] noted, "RUSSIA: Nicholas II, 1894-1917, AR 15 kopeks, 1914-SPB, lovely example with gorgeous frosty luster, NGC graded MS66+." The fifteen kopeks, a quasi-decimal denomination as ten and twenty kopeks were also minted, was struck in large numbers until the collapse of the regime in 1917. This date is common. The communists struck a similar coin in .500 silver until 1931.
Recorded mintage: 43,367,000, most common date.
Specification: 2.7 g, 0.500 fine silver, .043 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM Y-21a.2.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Bitkin, Vladimir, Composite Catalogue of Russian Coins, Part II (1740-1917), Kiev: Moneta, 2003.
- Harris, Robert P., Guidebook of Russian Coins, 1725 to 1970, Santa Cruz, CA: Bonanza Press, 1971.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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