Live auction - fwo_469441 - RUSSIA -IVAN VI Rouble 1741 Saint-Pétersbourg

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Estimate :	15 000 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	06 March 2018 18:56:25

Type : Rouble

Date: 1741

Mint name / Town : Saint-Pétersbourg

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 802 ‰

Diameter : 41 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 25,6 g.

Edge : inscrite en relief (de l'atelier de Saint-Pétersbourg)

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Très bel exemplaire avec un revers superbe qui conserve son brillant et sa fraîcheur de frappe. La monnaie est agréable avec un beau buste d’Ivan VI enfant. La monnaie a été brossée sur l’avers. Petite paille dans le métal au devant du front du tsar

Catalogue references :

KM18/207.2 - SEM.62 - Dav.1676

Obverse

Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).

Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Ivan VI enfant à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.

Obverse translation : (Par la grâce de Dieu, Ivan empereur et autocrate de toute la Russie).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale surmontée de trois couronnes impériales ; dans ses serres le globe et le sceptre ; sur sa poitrine l'écusson aux armes de Moscou (saint Georges à cheval, à droite). Autour de l'écu la grande chaîne de l'Ordre de Saint-André.

Reverse translation : (Monnaie rouble, 1741).

Commentary

C’est la première fois que nous présentons cette monnaie de la plus grande rareté à la vente ! Un exemplaire de qualité similaire a réalisé 22 000 euros dans la vente V.Gadoury de décembre 2017, un autre exemplaire s’est vendu 28 000 euros dans la vente Héritage de janvier 2017.

Historical background

RUSSIA -IVAN VI

(28/10/1740-06/12/1741)

Ivan VI was born in Saint Petersburg on August 23, 1740 and died on July 16, 1764 and was Emperor of Russia from 1740 to 1741. He is the son of Anna Leopoldovna and Antoine-Ulrich of Brünswick-Wolfenbüttel, and is designated as heir to the throne by his great-aunt Tsarina Anna Ivanovna. He was proclaimed emperor on October 17, 1740, under the regency of Count Ernst Johann von Biron, a former favorite of Anna Ivanovna; he was however removed from power on the following November 9 and Ivan's mother, Anna Leopoldovna, was proclaimed regent until her son reached the age of majority.. Anna Leopoldovna lets ministers rule, including Munnich's Field Marshal Burckhardt. This one enacts a Regulation of the factories fixing the relations between the owners and their workmen and regulating the day of work.. Nevertheless, dissensions appear between the ministers, compromising the stability and the credit of the government; moreover, the Russian nobility reproaches the regent for the too Germanic character of her entourage: an anti-German national feeling reappears. Public opinion turns to Elisabeth Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great and considered more "Russian" than Anna Leopoldovna. On December 6, 1741, a military coup removed Ivan VI and his mother from the throne.. Anna Leopoldovna and her husband's family are imprisoned in Kholmogory. Anna Leopoldovna died there in 1746 and Ivan was then locked up in the Shlisselburg fortress, under the name of "Prisoner number 1".. In 1764, an attempted coup was directed against Empress Catherine II, then reigning, in order to restore Ivan VI, "the man in the iron mask", to the throne: he was then assassinated by one of his jailers. His remains were identified in 2010 by Russian archaeologists in a 200-year-old coffin outside the Church of the Assumption in Kholmogory. .