Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1555. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr II Alexeyevich. 1727-1730. AR Rouble (28.07 g, 12h). Kadashevsky mint. Dated 1728. ΠETPЪ II ИMПEPATOPЬ ICAMOДEPЖEЦЬ BCEPOCCIИCKИ, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / MOHETA HOBAЯ ЦEHA P(OУ)БЛЬ, crowned cruciform П monogram; II in quarters; 17 28 across field. On edge: (flower) MOCKOBCKOΓO (flower) ДBOPA | POCCИCKOI (flower) P(OУ)БЛЬ (flower). Bitkin 60; cf. Severin 977; Uzdenikov 685. NGC photo graded MS 61, lovely full strike on obverse and just a hint of haymarking on reverse. A superb type coin with lovely luster overall. In uncirculated and extremely rare condition.

Purchased from Chelsea Coins, December 1982.

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.