A circular parcel-gilt coin box chased with two intersecting straps, one chased with a Slavonic inscription: ‘Those that do not squander money will not fall on hard times’, the other with stylised foliage, with similar foliage to the centre and pellets to the sides, engraved with Cyrillic monogram ‘RCA’.
Russian Silver Circular Coin Box
Sazikovreference number: RS_033
circa 1890s
silver
diameter: 6.6 cm
master’s mark: initials Cyrillic I.S. for Ignaty Sazikov
assay mark of St. Petersburg, before 1899
silver standard: 84 zolotnik