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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 126357, member: 4373&quot;]One of the rarest coin in the Russian numismatic field sold recently is the Constantine ruble (1825). The story behind it was when Constantine suddenly decide to give up his seat to the next Tsar, Nicholai I, which shook St. Petersburg mint die workers as they worked hard to prepare the dies in advance. </p><p><br /></p><p>In total, only 5 such coins were made and the last auction blew over half a million USD. But currently as Russian numismatic field is blowing at some insane rates, I am sure that it might be worth a fair bit more than that as that auction was held almost 3-4 years ago, if I remember right. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the rare Russian coins can be seen here: <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/russianc/russ.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/russianc/russ.htm" rel="nofollow">http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/russianc/russ.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Some interesting pieces are also the Ekaterinburg massive copper plates, modelled from the Swedish copper plates. Finally, the most interesting of all is a massive 1 kilo copper ruble coin minted in 1771, nicknamed Seskestrok ruble (don&#039;t think I have the spelling right for that), minted as an effort to back up the metal content value. Unfortunately, such coins proved to be too difficult to make and hence cancelled right away after a few tries. </p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s not ask price wise - they are definately beyond reach.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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