Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1567. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Yelizaveta Petrovna (Elizabeth). 1741-1762. AR Rouble (25.96 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Ivan Markov, mintmaster. Dated 1753. Б • M • EЛИCABETЪ • I • IMП : ICAMOД : BCEPOC, C П Б in exergue, crowned bust right / MOHETA • P(OУ)БЛЬ • 17 53, 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; I-м flanking tail. On edge: (two flowers) MOHETHAГO (flower) ДBOPA (four flowers) C • ПETEPБ(OУ)PXCKAГO. Bitkin 270; Severin 1606; Uzdenikov 852. NGC photo graded MS 64, a wonderful patina graces this well stuck rouble.

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