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Auction 31 10 January 2013
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RUSSIAN MEDALS. Russian Émigrés in Exile. MEDALS OF THE CIRCLE / SOCIETY OF AMATEURS OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY PAST. USSR. Tea Brick Money. Commissariat of Trade, Gostorg – State Trading Company Agency. 12 ½ X 5 ½ inches, and I ½ inches thick. Large rectangular 'brick' with coarsely pressed leaves, uncertain cursive pattern above (broken Mongol letter?), ГOCTOPГ ('Gostorg') inscribed within a triangle below. Very rare. Trivial gritting. Very well preserved. Extremely fine
Estimate: $1000
Estimate: $1000