Russia. Ruble, 1721 (Moscow)
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Russia. Ruble, 1721 (Moscow). Dav-1655; Sev-519; Uzd-599; KM-157.5. Peter I, 1682-1725. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Reverse: Crowned double-headed eagle, with scepter and orb. Minor planchet flaw on reverse edge; also a few scattered surface deposits. A marvelous strike, with only trivial weakness at eagle's breast. Fully lustrous, with proof-like fields. Very Rare in this grade. NGC graded MS-63 Prooflike. . The son of Czar Alexei Michailovitch and Natalia Narishkina, Peter was co-Czar with his half-brother, Ivan V, under the regency of his sister Sophia from 1682 to 1689. After a palace coup to remove Sophia, Peter began his sole reign and commenced his Herculean task of modernizing Russia militarily, technologically, and culturally. Herculean may truly be more apropos than poetic, since Peter stood a burly six foot eight. Even so, considering the internal resistance he had to meet and overcome, his successes appear phenomenal. Peter was truly a "hands on" administrator. He believed in starting from the bottom and working his way up. He learned shipbuilding from the Europeans he invited to Russia, and even built a ship himself, which he sometimes captained. In 1697, he accompanied an embassy to European courts as a carpenter named Peter Mikhailov. He also served as seaman, soldier, and barber, and surely to the
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