SOLD. Private Russian coin collection formed by Prince Dimitri Romanovich of Russia comprising more than 540 different coins.

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A private Russian coin collection formed by Prince Dimitri Romanovich of Russia; the collection, which is housed in two albums, comprising more than 540 different coins from tsarist Russia including: Peter I the Great, Rouble 1725; Catherine II the Great, Grivennik 1770; Alexander I, Rouble 1805, 1817 and Kopek 1805; Nicholas I, Rouble 1828, 1829, 1831, 1837, 1842 and 1848, 5 Kopecks 1831; Alexander II, Rouble 1877 and 1878; Alexander III, Rouble 1883, 1885 and 1892; Nicholas II, Rouble 1896 and 1913, 50 Kopecks 1895.

Provenance: Prince Dimitri Romanovich of Russia (1926–2016).

Prince Dmitri was son of Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia and Countess Praskovia Sheremeteva. His parents had shared Soviet captivity on the Crimea 1918–1919 with Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna. While she went to England, Prince and Princess Roman went to Southern France, where Prince Dimitri was born in Cap d'Antibes. After living in Rome and Italy he moved to Denmark in 1960, where he worked for Danske Bank. Prince Dimitri was great-great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Head of the House of Romanov 2014–2016. He was among others known for his Russian charity work, his membership of the Romanov Family Association and his co-arrangement for the reburial of Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg.

Condition

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Additional Remarks

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Auction

Russian art & icons, 1 December 2017