Live auction - fwo_426929 - RUSSIA - ALEXIS Ier MICHAILOVITCH Rouble Novodel 1654

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XF/AU

Estimate :	2 000 €
Price :	1 100 €
Maximum bid :	1 100 €
End of the sale :	13 June 2017 18:50:35
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Rouble Novodel

Date: 1654

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Diameter : 42,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 42,97 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire bien centré sur un flan régulier. Usure plus importante à l’avers

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.18/NAA2 - SEM- - WOL-

Obverse

Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).

Obverse description : Le tsar Alexis Mikhaïlovitch, couronné, à cheval portant le scpetre.

Reverse

Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE) .

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale impérial couronné dans un cadre perlé inscrit dans un cercle de perle..

Commentary

Les novodels russes sont des refrappes de types monétaires russes existants. D’une qualité de frappe soignée, ils diffèrent des frappes originales par leur style et le traitement des flans utilisés. Il s’agit toujours de très petits tirages très recherchés et appréciés des collectionneurs. Cette monnaie reprend le rouble original frappé en 1654 en très petite quantité. Cette exemplaire a la particularité d’avoir un poids supérieur à celui rencontré habituellement, ici la pièce fait presque 43 gr contre un poids habituel compris entre 25 et 35 gr.

Historical background

RUSSIA - ALEXIS Ier MICHAILOVITCH

(1645-1676)

Alexis I is the only son of Tsar Michael Romanov. He is renowned for his "very great gentleness", was in fact a devout conservative, who left power in the hands of his parents (E. Miloslavsky, V. I. Morozov), of his favorites (A. Matveyev) or Patriarch Nikon. The long reign of Alexis (1645-1676) is far from being peaceful: inside, the corruption, the multiplication of the taxes and the depreciation of the coin cause many popular uprisings (1648, 1650, 1662); the most important is the one led by the Don Cossack Stenka Razin in 1670-1671. To appease these popular discontents, the government takes measures to improve the administration and justice: in 1649, it is the introduction of a new code of laws, Uloženee, which will remain in use until 1833; the population was divided into different groups totally closed to each other; serfdom became the rule of public law for the peasant and his family. The second half of the reign was marked by the ecclesiastical reform undertaken by Patriarch Nikon, with a view to harmonizing the ecclesiastical books and the ritual of the liturgy with those of the mother Church of Constantinople, and by the simultaneous proclamation of the superiority of Church over State. This reform met with opposition from traditionalist circles led by Archpriest Avvakum and ended with the schism (raskol) of the supporters of the old faith, called “old believers” (starovery). ARRIGNON, "ALEXIS I MIKHAÏLOVITCH (1629-1676) - Tsar of Russia (1645-1676)", Encyclopædia Universalis http://www. universalis. en/encyclopedia/alexis-ier-mikhailovitch/.