Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1556. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $26000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr II Alexeyevich. 1727-1730. AR Rouble (28.36 g, 12h). Kadashevsky mint. Dated 1729. 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 29 across field. On edge: (flower) MOCKOBCKO (flower) ДBOPA (flower) POCCИCKOI (flower) P(OУ)БЛЬ (flower) |. Bitkin 119; Severin 1017; Uzdenikov 690. NGC photo graded MS 61, ultra-strong strike and lovely original patina graces this coin, one faint hairline shows on obverse. One of the nicest of this type known in uncirculated condition.

Ex Heiberg Collection (Giessener Münzhandlung 85, 14 October 1997), lot 314.