Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2095. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Paul I. 1796-1801. AR Ruble. St. Petersburg mint; M. Bobrovshchikov, mintmaster. Dated 1798. Cruciform imperial monogram with crowns / Legend and Psalm 115 within a square frame decorated with scroll-work. The edge decoration, which determines whether this is an original strike or a novodel, in not visible. Bitkin 32-33; Uzdenikov 1279; Severin 2429-2430; Davenport 1688; KM 101a. In NGC slab, graded MS64. Rare in high grade. ($1500)