Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, and Historical Medals

Germany, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevist Revolution in Petrograd, 1917, a cast bronze maquette by H. Schæfer, facing bust, with Lenin’s signature in the exergue, 121mm. A powerful likeness, very fine and very rare (£60-80)

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924), masterly political thinker and founder of the Russian communist party; leader of the Bolshevik revolution and the first head of state of the USSR. The first Bolshevik government was formed on 7 November 1917, following the party seizing power in Petrograd