RUSSIA & SOVIET UNION. The Copper Coinage of Imperial Russia 1700?1917, B. F. Brekke ([n.p.], 1977), 4to (c. 29 cm), hardcover in cream pictorial dust jacket, 296 pp, illustrated throughout with clear black-and-white coin photographs, line drawings, maps, and tables. A practical reign-by-reign reference to Russian copper from Peter I through Nicholas II, with useful background on the author?s cataloguing system, Russian weights, copper mints, novodels, and key literature, supported by technical and historical notes. Beyond the core listings it includes a number of specialist chapters on topics such as plate money, the 1797 re-overstriking, the Sestroretsk ruble, notable errors and patterns, sample strikes (including Berlin and Brussels), regional and transitional issues (Crimea and Georgia), and related areas including Central Asian khanates plus Moldavia and Wallachia. Laid in are the original printed USD pricelist and a 1977 Galerie des Monnaies of Geneva Ltd., New York invoice. Condition very good, jacket with general rubbing and short edge wear (light creasing and tape shadow to rear), sound boards, clean bright interiors, and a tight binding.

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