Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 36

Pre-Long Beach Coin and Currency Auction

Russian Gold

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 3361		Russia. Ruble, 1732. Bitkin-20; Dav-1670. Anna. Bold strike, considerable luster and attractively toned. PCGS graded AU-55. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3362		Russia. Ruble, 1732. Dav-1670; Sev-1096; Uzd-0703. Anna. Sharply struck portrait with considerable mint luster. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,070
Lot 3363		Russia. Ruble, 1733. Dav-1671; KM-192.2. Anna. NGC graded EF-40. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $540
Lot 3364		Russia. Ruble, 1735. Dav-1673-Uzd-0723. Anna. Hairline scratches. Toned. Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $350 - 450. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $437
Lot 3365		Russia. Ruble, 1741-SPB. Dav-1676; Sev-1376; Diakov-6. Ivan III. Deep blue toning. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $8,500 - 10,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $9,775
Lot 3366		Russia. Medal, 1743. Diakov-88.7; Bitkin-815. Silver. 40 mm. Milled edge. Award Medal. Peace with Sweden. Elizabeth. Bust right. Reverse:Imperial eagle and crest of Sweden within wreath, with landscape below. Original. Rare. Choice Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,450
Lot 3367		Russia. Ruble, 1743-SPB. Dav-1677; Sev-1443; Diakov-67; Uzd-0778. Elizabeth. Lustrous example. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,783
Lot 3368		Russia. Ruble, 1743-SPB. Dav-1677; Diakov-61; Sev-1444. Elizabeth. Minor scratch in left obverse field. Lightly cleaned. Very Fine. Estimated Value $250 - 300. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $604
Lot 3369		Russia. Ruble, 1744-SPB. Sev-1465; Uzd-0787; Dav-1677. Elizabeth. Well struck with original mint luster. Great eye appeal. Uncirculated. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,783
Lot 3370		Russia. Ruble, 1750-SPB. Dav-1677; KM-C19b.4. Elizabeth. Toned. NGC graded EF-40. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $506
Lot 3371		Russia. Ruble, 1752-MMA I Sh. Dav-1678; Sev-1597. Elizabeth. Scratch on obverse. Well struck. About Uncirculated. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,300
Lot 3372		Russia. Ruble, 1752-MMD- Ye. Dav-1678; Sev-1593; Uzd-0843; Diakov-257-258. Elizabeth. Sharply struck with considerable luster. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,120
Lot 3373		Russia. Ruble, 1753-SPB-IM. Dav-1678; Sev-1605-6; Diakov-288; Uzd-0852. Elizabeth. NGC graded AU-53. Estimated Value $500 - 700. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $690
Lot 3374		Russia. Ruble, 1757-SPB YaI. Bitkin-189; Sev-1686; Dav-1680. Elizabeth. typical soft strike. Rare portrait type with dies executed by Swiss medallist Jacques Dassier. Only issued for a few months. Toned. Rare. PCGS graded VF-35. Estimated Value $7,000 - 9,000. Ex Heifetz, Dec, 1989, Lot 2158; The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $16,100
Lot 3375		Russia. Ruble, 1762-SPB NK. Dav-1682; Sev-1882A. Peter III. One year type. Scuff mark in field. Fully lustrous, bold strike with light gray tone. Rare in top grades. Uncirculated. Estimated Value $6,500 - 7,500. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3376		Russia. Ruble, 1762-SPB NK. Dav-1682; Sev-1882A. Peter III. One year type. Toned. Rare in top grades. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $4,000 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $4,600
Lot 3377		Russia. Ruble, 1764-SPB YaI. Dav-1683; Sev-1937. Catherine II. Lustrous. About Uncirculated. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,265
Lot 3378		Russia. Ruble, 1769-SPB SA. Dav-1684; Sev-2031. Catherine II. NGC graded EF-40. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $510
Lot 3379		Russia. Ruble, 1769-SPB SA. Dav-1684; Sev-2031. Catherine II. NGC graded VF-30. Estimated Value $125 - 175. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $408
Lot 3380		Russia. Award Medal, 1770. Bitkin-Unlisted; Diakov-Unlisted. Silver-plated bronze. 40 mm. Plain edge. Novodel. Catherine II. Bust right. Reverse: Inscription. Award Medal, for Battle at Kagul. Unrecorded mule striking. Portrait of obverse die later striking. Rare. Uncirculated. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,200
Lot 3381		Russia. Sestroretsk Ruble, 1771. Br-317, edge type-2; Bitkin-880. Novodel. 1030.6 grams. 75.9 mm wide and 26.8 mm thick from a first type sawed planchet. Uncirculated. This amazing artifact is the world's largest round copper coin. Throughout numismatic history, the most interesting and unusual issues are often the result of the economic necessities of war. In order to finance her campaigns, Catherine II instituted an issue of paper assignats in 1769. These were to be backed by and fully exchangeable for copper currency and it was proposed that a copper ruble could be more efficiently produced than the equivalent of twenty 5 kopeck pieces. It was also surmised that not too many holders of the paper assignats would ask to exchange them for the large and heavy copper coins. Thus the law was enacted in 1770 calling for the issue of copper rubles. Production was to take place at the Military Ordnance Works at Sestroretsk, near St. Petersburg, because the heavy machinery required to produce the massive 1000 gram planchets was already in place. Because of the thickness of the required planchets, it was decided to saw them from copper rods of the appropriate diameter. This proved excessively difficult and an alternate procedure whereby planchets were cast, then lathed to the needed specifications was tried. Sawing was too difficult and casting / lathing was too expensive. No one anticipated the many technical problems involved in production and after 8 years of experimentation and frustration, the few original test samples were sent to the Senate and the dies were stored at the St. Petersburg Mint. The type is known with two dates, 1770 and 1771. A very few novodels were struck from original dies during the 1840's and 1850's with newly made collars as the original collars had been lost. This novodel is from a sawed planchet which is rarer than those of the cast & lathed variety. The few known original specimens are now housed in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D. C. Here then is a rare opportunity to acquire the world's rarest copper coin and among the rarest and most famous of all the world's coins. An opportunity not to be missed as it may be many years before we wee another offered for public sale. Estimated Value $50,000 - 75,000. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3382		Russia. Ruble, 1774-SPB OL. Dav-1684; Sev-2091. Catherine II. NGC graded VF-20. Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $276
Lot 3383		Russia. Ruble, 1782-SPB IZ. Bitkin-219; Dav-1685. Catherine II. Deeply toned with lustrous fields. NGC graded AU-58. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,840
Lot 3384		Russia. Grivennik (10 Kopeks), 1784-SPB. Sev-2204. Catherine II. Nicely toned. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $360
Lot 3385		Russia. Novodel Ruble, 1797-SM FTs. Bitkin-H18; Sev-Unlisted; GM-Unlisted; Uzd-Unlisted. 38 mm. 20.82 grams. Edge #1. Paul I. This is a novodel of the "heavy ruble" date 1797, but struck to the 1798-1801 standard of weight and diameter. The only other recorded light weight 1797 ruble novodel is the variety of GM-99 which has the initials SM MB and is extremely rare. This specimen with initials SM FTs (correct for the original issue heavy ruble) is unrecorded in any reference that we can find. Deeply toned. Of the Highest Rarity if not unique. PCGS graded MS-63. Estimated Value $20,000 - 30,000. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3386		Russia. Novodel Poltina, 1797-SM FTs. Bitkin-H37; GM-Unlisted; Sev-Unlisted; Uzd-Unlisted. 30.5 mm. 10.45 grams. Edge #1. Paul I. Well struck and nicely toned in light silvery gray. This is a novodel of the "heavy poltina" date 1797, but struck to the 1798-1801 standard of weight and diameter. The only other recorded light weight 1797 poltina novodel is a variety of GM-100 which has the initials SM MB and is extremely rare. this specimen with initials SM FTs, is unrecorded in any reference we can find. Excessively Rare, if not unique. PCGS graded MS-63. Estimated Value $15,000 - 20,000. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3387		Russia. Ruble, 1798-MB SM. Dav-1688; Sev-2429; KM-C101a. Paul I. Very Fine. Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $180
Lot 3388		Russia. 2 Kopeks, 1800-EM. C-95.3. Lovely chocolate-brown surfaces with glimmers of mint red around the devices. Choice Uncirculated. Estimated Value $175 - 225. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3389		Russia. Novodel Ruble, 1801-SM AI. Bitkin-H35; Sev-2488. Edge #6. Paul I. This is a superb specimen, very well struck and beautifully toned in silvery gray and iridescent hues. The surfaces are very prooflike and nearly immaculate. A curious and attractive effect of striking, as if the planchet was squeezed into a somewhat smaller collar, is a slight elevation of the fields toward the rims, especially on the obverse. This type is rated R2, with 10-19 specimens estimated extant. We doubt if any of those, should there be that many, will be as nice as this very choice example. Extremely rare and the only specimen seen in the past 25 years. PCGS graded MS-64. Estimated Value $20,000 - 30,000. Ex Virgil Brand; The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3390		Russia. Novodel Ruble, 1810-SPB FG. Bitkin-H70; Sev-2603. Alexander I. Plain edge. First type with date above the eagle. This Superb Gem is very sharply struck, virtually perfect in that regard and the surfaces are equally perfect and wholly prooflike. It is in addition beautifully toned in Old iridescent shades of golden russet and blue, these features combining, to provide exceptional eye appeal. It is rated R3, with only 4 to 9 estimated to exist. We feel confident in judging this outstanding specimen to be the finest of its type. PCGS graded MS-67. Estimated Value $15,000 - 25,000. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3391		Russia. ½ Kopek, 1811-IM MK. B-155; Cr-116.4. Alexander I. Wings up. Reverse: Value in wreath. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $219
Lot 3392		Russia. Ruble, 1817-SPB PS. Dav-281; KM-C130. Alexander I. Cleaned. Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $100 - 125. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $127
Lot 3393		Russia. Ruble, 1818-SPB PS. Bitkin-H96/97; Dav-281; Cr-130. Alexander I. Lettered edge. This specimen is sharply struck with handsome old toning in steel blue and russet. A few of the designs's highest points on the reverse are slightly flat due to the lapping of the novodel dies. This feature does not detract in the slightest and in fact is instructive as to the procedures utilized during the production process. Bitkin has categorized this type as a Rarity 4, indicating that only 2 or 3 specimens are believed to exist. We cannot imagine a finer one than the Excessively Rare example here offered for your bidding pleasure. PCGS graded Proof 66. Estimated Value $15,000 - 20,000. The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3394		Russia. Poltina, 1820-SPB PD. KM-C129; Julian-742. Alexander I. Crowned eagle. Reverse: Crowned inscription within wreath. Razor sharp detail. Beautiful iridscent tone. Rare. Choice Proof. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,910
Lot 3395		Russia. Ruble, 1827-SPB NG. Dav-282; Sev-2907. Nicholas I. Attractive lustrous example. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $920
Lot 3396		Russia. Ruble, 1828-SPB G. Dav-282; Sev-2921. Nicholas I. Wings down. Toned. About Uncirculated. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3397		Russia. Ruble, 1829-SPB NG. Dav-282; Sev-2934. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,668
Lot 3398		Russia. Ruble, 1830-SPB NG. Dav-282; Sev-2956. Nicholas I. Original lustrous example with good eye appeal. NGC graded AU-58. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $690
Lot 3399		Russia. Ruble, 1831-SPB NG. Dav-282; Sev-2983. Nicholas I. Wings down. Most beautiful colors imaginable on a silver proof coin; vibrant rose-gold and mauve on the obverse and intense royal blue on the reverse. Truly an exquisite specimen. PCGS graded Proof 65 Cameo. Estimated Value $12,000 - 15,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $14,950
Lot 3400		Russia. Ruble, 1831-SPB NG. Dav-282; Sev-2984. Nicholas I. Beautifully toned. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,265
Lot 3401		Russia. 5 Kopeks, 1831-FKh YeM. B-241; Cr-140.1. Novodel. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $253
Lot 3402		Russia. 5 Kopeks, 1831-FKh YeM. B-241; Cr-140.1. Novodel. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-61 Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $334
Lot 3403		Russia. 10 Kopeks, 1832-FKh YeM. B-278; Cr-141.1. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-62 Red & Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3404		Russia. 10 Kopeks, 1833-FKh YeM. B-280; Cr-141.1. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-63 Brown. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $690
Lot 3405		Russia. 5 Kopeks, 1833-FKh YeM. B-246; Cr-140.1. Novodel. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $312
Lot 3406		Russia. Ruble, 1834-SPB NG. Bitkin-108; Sev-3058 variety; Dav-283. Nicholas I. This is a lovely Gem Proof specimen covered with exquisite old iridescent toning, in shades of blue, green, violet, russet and gold. Extremely rare in this lofty state of preservation. NGC graded Proof 67. Estimated Value $15,000 - 18,000. Ex:Virgil Bound, The Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $20,700
Lot 3407		Russia. 5 Kopeks, 1835-FKh YeM. B-250; Cr-140.1. Nicholas I. Die deterioration. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $240
Lot 3408		Russia. Kopeck, 1835-FKh YeM. B-88; Cr-138.1. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3409		Russia. 5 Kopeks, 1836-FKh YeM. B-252; Cr-140.1. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-62 Brown. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $230
Lot 3410		Russia. 2 Kopeks, 1837-NA YeM. B-153; Cr-139.1. Nicholas I. NGC graded MS-64 Brown. Estimated Value $150 - 175. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold

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