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. 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