Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2020 Auction 5-6 Aug 2020
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UKRAINE. 100 Hryven, 2007. NGC PROOF-70 Ultra Cameo.
Fr-28; KM-471. Mintage: 4000. AGW: 1.000 troy oz. Issued to honor the Ostroh bible. Tied for finest certified on the NGC population report with five other examples. A sharply struck example displaying frosted cameo devices and hard mirrored fields garnering a perfect grade from NGC. Free of tone, haze or fog.
Fr-28; KM-471. Mintage: 4000. AGW: 1.000 troy oz. Issued to honor the Ostroh bible. Tied for finest certified on the NGC population report with five other examples. A sharply struck example displaying frosted cameo devices and hard mirrored fields garnering a perfect grade from NGC. Free of tone, haze or fog.
Wikipedia comments, "The Ostrog Bible (Ukrainian: Острозька Біблія) was one of the earliest East Slavic translations of the Bible and the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic, published in Ostroh, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, by the printer Ivan Fyodorov in 1581 with the assistance of the Ruthenian Prince Konstantin Ostrogski."
Estimate: $1700.00- $2200.00