Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1554. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr II Alexeyevich. 1727-1730. AR Rouble (28.22 g, 12h). Red mint. Dated 1727. ΠETPЪ • II * ИMПEPATOPЬ * ICAMOДEPЖEЦЬ * BCEPOCCIИCKИ *, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / MOHETA * HOBAA * ЦEHA * P(OУ)БЛЬ *, crowned cruciform П monogram; II in quarters; 17 27 across field. On edge: | MOCKOBCKOΓ (flower) ДBOPA (flower) POCCИCKOΓ (flower) P(OУ)БЛЬ (five flowers). Bitkin 29; Severin 921; Uzdenikov 671. NGC photo graded AU 58, well struck and very lightly toned with full luster. Very choice and virtually uncirculated.

Ex World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen) XVI (16 November 1989), lot 695.

The grandson of Petr I and the son of the tsarevich, Alexei Petrovich, who had been tortured to death by his father for alleged treason, Petr II had a brief and turbulent reign, ending withe his death of smallpox at the age of 14.