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 with five other example on the NGC population report. A sharply struck magnificent looking example garnering a perfect grade from NGC with intricate frosted cameo devices complemented by open flashy proof surfaces. 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 with five other example on the NGC population report. A sharply struck magnificent looking example garnering a perfect grade from NGC with intricate frosted cameo devices complemented by open flashy proof surfaces. 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