Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1541. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AR Poltina (13.76 g, 12h). Kadashevsky mint. Dated 1705 (OCS date). ЦPЬ ΠETPЪ AЛEξIEBИЧЪ BCEA POCIИ ПOBEЛITEЉ, bareheaded and armored bust right / MAHETA ДOБPAA HOBAA ЦEHA ПOЛTИHA (year symbol) AΨE (OCS date), crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; above, imperial crown with x in each field. On edge: plain. Bitkin 545; Severin 161/160 (obv./rev.); Uzdenikov 487. NGC photo graded AU 55. A toned, lovely uncirculated original strike in high quality and very rare in this grade.

Ex Heiberg Collection (Giessener Münzhandlung 85, 14 October 1997), lot 72.