Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1566. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Yelizaveta Petrovna (Elizabeth). 1741-1762. AR Rouble (26.11 g, 12h). Red mint. Dated 1751. Б • M • EЛИCABETЪ • I • IMП : ICAMOД : BCEPOC :, M•M•Д in exergue, crowned bust right / MOHETA P(OУ)БЛЬ 17 51, crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei Первозванного (the First Called) on breast; above, imperial crown. On edge: (four flowers) MAHETHOГO (flower) ДBOPA (five flowers) MOCKOBCKOГO. Bitkin 123; Severin 1569; Uzdenikov 834. NGC photo graded MS 63, this rouble is beautiful, superbly toned specimen with a faint obverse cabinet rub on the patina.

Purchased from M. L. Teller, October 1984. Ex Baldwin’s; L.M. Hewlett Collection; L.M. Lingford Collection; Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Collection.