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674: 27: 362:, were genuine work-in-progress samples retained by Cancrin. Their existence explains the difference between the number of tin proofs recorded in 1825 (nineteen) and in 1884 (seventeen). Yanin theorized that Bychkov could have inherited from Cancrin the hypothetical sixth Constantine ruble, and that it was resold in Europe in 1898. 323:
In 1857, when Nicholas and all men involved in pressing the Constantine rouble were already dead, general Fyodor Schubert (1789–1865) broke the silence and published a brief description of a Constantine ruble from his private collection. Schubert wrote that his coin was a test sample that was sent to
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and took full control over the country. Cancrin ordered to halt all work on the Constantine ruble and declared the whole affair a state secret. Two of three pairs of press dies were left incomplete; they, along with five proof coins, tin proof pressings and Reichel's original drawings, were locked in
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The first Constantine ruble that became public through an 1857 publication by Schubert. In 1913 it was auctioned as part of count Tolstoy's estate. In 1961 it was owned, along with several fakes, by A. E. Kelpsh, a Russian emigree to the United States. Kelpsh estate sold their Constantine ruble to a
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In 1873 prince Trubetskoy (1813–1889) challenged Koene's story and published a different explanation of the events. According to Trubetskoy, all five test samples were sent to Warsaw and ended up in the hands of an anonymous Polish plunderer who later emigrated to France. After his death Trubetskoy
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December 6]. Constantine's birth medals were pressed immediately and sent to Cancrin's orders; making of the dies took a whole week. The dies were sized to fit a manual press and could not be reused in automated mass production presses. Tradition held it that the Constantine ruble presses were
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Numerous other fakes, some of very high quality, circulated in Europe and Russia. They were pressed either from real, mass-produced silver coins of the period, or from soft alloys. According to Ivan Spassky, all high-quality fakes of this kind were pressed on the same set of dies. According to
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Obverse and reverse patterns are aligned at 180 degrees (top of obverse matches bottom of reverse). Mass-produced rubles of the period usually had their obverse, reverse and edge lettering pressed in a single operation. The automated presses produced nearly perfect alignment of edge lettering
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designed and carved by Jacob Reichel (obverse) and Vladimir Alekseyev (reverse). According to Schukina, Reichel was certainly the author of the artwork, but each of three obverse press dies was carved by its own engraver. All three differ in craftsmanship quality and stage of completion.
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during World War I and was owned by Soviet collector Richter. Ivan Spassky examined the coin in 1962 and found that it matches the Hermitage press dies. After Richter's death the coin emerged in Germany. The new owner, numismatist Willhelm Fuchs, failed to sell it through
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Two coins with edge relief are still in Russia, at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the State Historical Museum in Moscow. All others, including the Schubert and Richter rubles, ended up overseas. The collection of Georgy Mikhailovich is now owned by the
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December 5] Cancrin authorized making and testing the presses for the Constantine ruble. On the same day he also instructed Saint Peterburg Mint to press an additional run of the medal that was struck in 1779 on the occasion of Constantine's birth.
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samples. It appeared that Schubert's ruble, which lacked edge relief, was a genuine 1825 pressing, but the number of such incomplete pressings and their whereabouts remained unknown. The public also remained unaware that a few months earlier, in 1879,
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Kalinin, the genuine press dies from the Hermitage are no longer good for minting. During World War II the Hermitage coin collection was evacuated from the city into deep rear. The dies were stored in inappropriately humid conditions that caused
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became his widow's agent; two or three coins were allegedly sold to an American collector and perished in a shipwreck, two remained in Trubetskoy's possession. Russian collectors contested Trubetskoy's account and suspected that the so-called
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December 12], when the Romanovs had already resolved the succession crisis in favor of Nicholas. Actual number of Constantine rubles is debated. According to Ivan Spassky, there were only five. According to studies by Bartoshevich and
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relative to obverse and reverse surfaces. Constantine rubles, on the contrary, were literally hand made on simple manually operated presses from blanks with pre-pressed edge lettering. They all display varying degrees of alignment errors.
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An 1880 publication by former Ministry of Finance executive D. F. Kobeko confirmed suspicions against Trubetskoy. According to Kobeko, the Ministry still possessed five silver Constantine rubles, three sets of press dies and nineteen
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is a fake Constantine ruble manufactured in the 1860s in Paris, a rare collectible in its own right. Two original Trubetskoy rubles are preserved at the Hermitage Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, the third is privately owned.
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in favor of Nicholas. The informal arrangement was sealed by Alexander's secret manifest in 1823. Neither Constantine nor Nicholas were made aware of its existence; the whole country sincerely believed that Constantine
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Owned by Soviet collector Garshin (1887–1956). Twenty years after his death resurfaced in Germany in possession of Willhelm Fuchs. In 1979 it was offered for sale in the United States for US$ 114,000.
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The Trubetskoy fakes have become rare collectibles in their own right; two of these are preserved at the Hermitage and the Smithsonian (the latter is part of Georgy Mikhailovich collection).
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partially redeemed Trubetskoy: according to Yanin, the legendary shipment of samples to Warsaw was a coverup of Cancrin's invention, rather than Trubetskoy's own hoax.
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complete with edge lettering. A hypothetical sixth coin of this type was probably minted in December 1825 and disappeared without trace. Three coins of the so-called
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but has never been minted in numbers and never circulated in public. The fact of its existence, classified in Russia until 1886, leaked into European press in 1857.
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of the polished surfaces. Speckles of rust on the Hermitage dies, according to Kalinin, forever rule out their use (or abuse) for cloning the Constantine ruble.
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By 1880 Russian numismatists were well aware of the existence of Constantine rubles, but their first printed description was published only in 1886 - Kalinin,
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Delivered from the Ministry of Finance to Alexander II June 15, 1879. Transferred to the Hermitage in 1926 and from there to State Historical Museum in 1930.
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Constantine's approval during the interregnum, and that press dies were destroyed upon accession of Nicholas I. Schubert's coin lacked edge lettering.
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silver alloy, 35 mm diameter, 20.73 grams gross weight. Pure silver content of the coin is prominently written on the reverse as 4 and 21/96
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published his account of the coin's history; according to Koene, the whole affair was Reichel's private venture. Reichel, wrote Koehne, sent
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was present at the State Council meeting of December 9, and thus aware of the unfolding dynastic crisis. Nevertheless, on December 17 [
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Real silver rubles pressed during the reigns of Alexander I and Nicholas I were used as blanks for pressing fake Constantine rubles.
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was resold in 2004 for $ 525,000. The auction company claimed that it was then the highest price record for a non-US coin.
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type have no edge lettering. They are, most likely, intermediate work-in-progress proofs illegally removed from the Mint.
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the vaults of the Ministry of Finance. Their existence remained strictly classified throughout the reign of Nicholas I.
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K voprosu o sozdatelyah shtempeley konstantinovskogo rublya (К вопросу о создателях штемпелей константиновского рубля)
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were donated to the Hermitage Museum in October 1884 after the Hermitage director Vasilchikov pleaded the new emperor
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Legendary Constantine Ruble Sets New Record in the New York Sale Auction as the World's Most Expensive Non-U.S. Coin
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the heir. Extreme secrecy made the Manifest unenforceable in real life. When the news of Alexander's death reached
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Iz istorii sozdaniya shtempeley konstantinovskogo rublya (Из истории создания штемпелей константиновского рубля)
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in 1879 or 1880. Presumably the coin was auctioned at Hamburger's in 1898 and at Schulman's (New York) in 1965.
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Konstantinovsky rubl. Novye materialy i opisaniya (Константиновский рубль. Новые материалы и исследования)
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in January 1914 to the Brand family. Auctioned in 1964 to Sol Kaplan, later sold to a Swiss collector.
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Novoye o ruble Konstantina 1825 g. i ego poddelkah (Новое о рубле Константина 1825 г. и его подделках)
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December 13] Nicholas declared himself emperor. On the next day Nicholas prevailed over the
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Konstantinovsky rubl i istoriya ego izuchenia (Константиновский рубль и история его изучения)
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to his reigning brother Alexander, who had no legitimate issue, until 1823. In 1821–1822 the
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Genuine Constantine rubles conform to the standard of silver ruble established in 1810: .833
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coins to Warsaw and all three disappeared when Constantine's palace was looted during the
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in 1981; by 1990 it was believed to be in a private collection in the United States.
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The Willis H. duPont - Georgii Mikhailovich Collection of Russian Coins and Medals
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Saint Petersburg Mint received the instructions on the next day, December 18 [
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November 27] 1825, Nicholas duly pledged allegiance to Constantine before
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in the United States. The Hermitage also possesses the three genuine sets of
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purchased the coin in 1959 and donated it to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Delivered from the Ministry of Finance to the Hermitage June 19, 1879.
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the whole collection was moved out of the country and resurfaced in
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Zametki o konstantinovskob ruble (Заметки о константиновском рубле)
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Smithsonian Rare Russian Coin Collection Seeks Exhibition Sponsor
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in the Hermitage collection is the heaviest at 21.48 grams.
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work-in-progress samples and Jacob Reichel's original design on
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Another Constantine ruble without edge relief, the so-called
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brothers agreed that Constantine would step down from the
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removed five genuine Constantine rubles from the vault.
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Three Constantine rubles are currently preserved at the
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Their story was declassified in an 1886 publication by
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coin secretly retained by Cancrin. It resurfaced in
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(1991, in Russian). 782: 780: 778: 776: 749: 747: 745: 543:Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark 306:In the evening of December 25 [ 1190:Spassky, I. G. (1991, in Russian). 1172:Kalinin, V. A. (1991, in Russian). 14: 16:Silver coin of the Russian Empire 1143:. Moscow: Finansy i statistika. 591:in February 1880. Auctioned in 569:Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich 1251:Politics of the Russian Empire 611:Reichel-Schubert-Tolstoy ruble 527:Grand Duke George Mikhailovich 380:Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich 347:were fake. After World War II 1: 464:Circumstances of rediscovery 445:Ivan Spassky summarized his 1131:The accession of Nicholas I 410:Distribution and provenance 278:The Mint pressed two first 198:Russian interregnum of 1825 155:is pressed on the edge, in 53: 1277: 1236:1825 in the Russian Empire 560:Sergei Alexandrovich ruble 529:in 1879. Deposited in the 458:Individual name (Spassky) 394:, Georgy Mikhailovich and 386:), donated another to the 195: 69:, the brother of emperors 589:Prince Alexander of Hesse 580:Alexander von Hesse ruble 518:Georgy Mikhailovich ruble 42: 1231:1825 in economic history 329:Bernhard Karl von Koehne 171:) and 20.89 grams ( 739:. Retrieved 02-03-2010. 607:without edge lettering 553:Smithsonian Institution 511:State Historical Museum 436:Smithsonian Institution 384:State Historical Museum 113:Smithsonian Institution 109:State Historical Museum 65:bearing the profile of 1134:. London: John Murray. 678: 373:Alexander II of Russia 248:Emperor of All Russias 54:Konstantinovskiy rubl' 43:Константиновский рубль 30: 23: 676: 196:Further information: 167:), 20.57 grams ( 79:Saint Petersburg Mint 29: 22: 533:in 1909. During the 478:with edge lettering 396:Sergey Alexandrovich 282:on December 24 [ 258:Minister of Finance 173:Garschin-Fuchs ruble 1256:One-base-unit coins 1212:. 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Index



Russian
romanized
silver
Russian Empire
Constantine
Alexander I
Nicholas I
Saint Petersburg Mint
Interregnum of 1825
Ivan Spassky
proof coins
Hermitage Museum
State Historical Museum
Smithsonian Institution
press dies
tin
parchment
millesimal fineness
zolotniks
hallmark
Cyrillic
Russian interregnum of 1825
Paul I
heir presumptive
Romanov
order of succession
Saint Petersburg
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