Live auction - fwo_702920 - RUSSIA - CATHERINE I Poltina 1726 Saint-Pétersbourg

RUSSIA - CATHERINE I Poltina 1726 Saint-Pétersbourg VF

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Estimate :	300 €
Price :	520 €
Maximum bid :	520 €
End of the sale :	25 January 2022 21:47:32
bidders :	5 bidders

Type : Poltina

Date: 1726

Mint name / Town : Saint-Pétersbourg

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 729 ‰

Diameter : 36 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 13,51 g.

Edge : Cannelure oblique

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

La monnaie présente une usure importante. Frappe décentrée sur les deux faces. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

KM18/174 - WOL88

Obverse

Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).

Obverse description : Buste de Catherine Ire à gauche, avec une écharpe drapée et fixée par une broche sur la poitrine. Les cheveux ornés d'un rang de perles.

Obverse translation : (Catherine, impératrice et autocrate de toute la Russie).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale surmontée de trois couronnes impériales, celle du milieu étant plus grande. Dans les serres de droite le sceptre, dans celles de gauche un globe crucigère.

Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle, valeur poltina, 1726).

Historical background

RUSSIA - CATHERINE I

(1725-05/17/1727)

Catherine was born around 1684 in Livonia. She comes from a modest background and in 1701 married a dragoon of Charles XII, King of Sweden. In 1702, during the capture of Marienbourg, she was taken prisoner by the Russians and became the mistress of Menshikov and then of Tsar Peter the Great. She was crowned Empress in 1724 and succeeded Peter the Great the following year. She died in Saint Petersburg on May 17, 1727.