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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 3166013, member: 24091&quot;]Technically (at least according to Krause) part of the 1980 Olympic series, though struck 10 years later with a much lower mintage of 14,000.&nbsp; Apparently, the same weight, dimensions and reverse design make it similar enough to include it in this earlier series, though the Peter The Great monument in St. Petersburg has absolutely nothing to do with the Olympics.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, struck during a very interesting period in Russian history, or more accurately Soviet history.&nbsp; Not a chance 30 years earlier the Soviets would have depicted a Romanov on a coin, Peter The Great or otherwise, but here he is in 1990.&nbsp; Struck after Glasnost and Perestroika had blown things wide open in Russia culturally, and it was finally okay to look back on the Tsarist era with pride and nostalgia.&nbsp; A year later the Soviet Union was history, this coin being one of the last issued by the crumbling government.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Listed as Y-252 in Krause.&nbsp; These were selling for $1,250 in 2008 at the top of the market for Russian material, today a much more reasonable $100 over melt if you look around.&nbsp; Contains 0.5000 AGW.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]813806[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]813807[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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