Assembled Over Twenty-Five Years – An American Collection of Select Roubles and Poltinas

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1538. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov. 1645-1676. AR Rouble (25.67 g, 12h). Novodel issue. Moskva (Moscow) mint. Dated Year of the World 7162 (AD 1654). : БЖЇEЮ MЛCШЇЮ BEЛЇKИ ΓДPЬ ЦPЬ Ї BEЛЇKИЇ KHSЪ AЛEKCIѢЇ MИXAЇЛOBЇЧЪ BCEЯ BEЛЇKЇЯ Ї MAЛЫЯ POCИЇ, Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, crowned and holding scepter, on horseback right / ЛIѢTЯ (year symbol) З • PξO PУБЛЬ within ornate border, double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed; above, imperial crown; all within ornate frame. Plain edge. Cf. Kaim 1600; KM N-AA2. NGC photo graded MS 63, beautiful light toning in legends and devices with much original luster. A superbly madenovodel issue of this very first silver crown of Russia.

Purchased from M. L. Teller, October 1984. Ex Michele Baranowsky Collection (Glendining, 14 June 1972), lot 23.

Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov was the father of Petr I and son of Mikhail Romanov, the founder of the Russian royal dynasty.