Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1540. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AR Rouble (27.24 g, 12h). Novodel issue. Kadashevsky mint. Dated 1705 (OCS date). ЦPЬ ΠETPЪ AЛEξIEBИЧЪ BCEA POCIИ ПOBEЛITEЉ, bareheaded and armored bust right / MAHETA ДOБPAA HOBAA ЦEHA P(OУ)БЛЬ (year symbol) AΨE (OCS date), crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; above, imperial crown. Plain edge. Cf. Bitkin 178; Severin 185; Uzdenikov 484. NGC photo graded MS 62, this coin has iridescent hue of blue and gray over its lightly toned surface. A superb novodel of this first crown type of Petr I Velikiy. A mint state coin of a class rarely seen these days.

Ex Dr. Feori Pipito Collection (Superior, 12 December 1987), lot 3090.

Petr I brought his country into modern times and transformed it from a medieval society to a modern state.