Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1543. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AR Rouble (28.11 g, 12h). Novodel issue. Kadashevsky mint. Dated 1707 (Arabic date). ЦPЬ • ΠETPЪ • AЛEξIEBИЧЪ • B : P : П :, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / MOCKBOCKИI P(OУ)БЛЬ, crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; above, imperial crown; 17 07 flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Bitkin H189; Severin 245; Uzdenikov 505. NGC photo graded MS 62, a choice mint state coin with wonderful patina and fully proof-like surfaces. Surely one of the finest known specimens.

Ex Spink Australia 27 (2 March 1989), lot 949; World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen) V (29 May 1986), lot 743; Bespalof Collection (Part I, Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, 18 March 1944), lot 29.