Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1546. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AR Poltina (14.11 g, 12h). Kadashevsky mint. Dated 1722/1 (OCS date). ΠETPЪ A ИMПEPATOPЬ ICAMOДEPЖEЦЬ BCEPOCCIИCKИI, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / MOHETA HOBAA ЦEHA ПOЛTИHA (OCS date), crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; above, imperial crown. On edge: (trefoil) MOHETИOГO ДBOPA (two leaves) POCIИCKAA ПOЛTИHA. Bitkin 687; Severin 525; cf. Uzdenikov 595. NGC photo graded AU DETAILS, scratched, toned choice extremely fine with a few light scratches. Another nicely toned specimen and very rare in this grade.

Ex Heiberg Collection (Giessener Münzhandlung 85, 14 October 1997), lot 191; World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen)/Gothic Coins II (25 March 1982), lot 76.