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Revision as of 16:14, 23 January 2025
This specimen was lot 25670 in Heritage sale 3026 (Long Beach, October 2013), where it sold for $3,525. The catalog description[1] noted, "Nicholas II gold 7 1/2 Roubles 1897 AГ, Bust left / Crowned double-headed Imperial eagle with date and value, MS63 NGC. Well struck with brilliant luster and surfaces displaying only superficial imperfections." This type was a one year experiment in minting a gold coinage to the French standard; this denomination matched the gold twenty francs; a fifteen rubles (KM Y65) was also issued.
Recorded mintage: 16,229,000.
Specification: 6.45 g, 0.900 fine gold, .186 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Bitkin 17, KM-Y63.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and Scott Cordry, Heritage Signature Auction 3026, World & Ancient Coins, featuring the RLM Collection, Part Two, the Nogales Collection and the Goetz Medals Die Archive, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.
- 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.
- Harris, Robert P., Guidebook of Russian Coins, 1725 to 1970, Santa Cruz, CA: Bonanza Press, 1971.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 7th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2003.
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