3 Roubles 'Fabergé Scoop'

The "Fabergé Scoop" belongs to Russia's long-running series honoring the House of Fabergé, issued under the Bank of Russia's commemorative program. Carl Fabergé's workshops were shuttered and nationalized following the 1917 Revolution; much of the firm's archive and remaining stock was seized by the Bolsheviks, making the original pieces now dispersed across private collections and institutions from Geneva to Washington. That the Russian state now issues coins celebrating the same craftsmen it once dispossessed is an irony the catalog cannot convey.