Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1572. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr III Fyodorovitch. 1762. AR Poltina (12.21 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nazar Kutuzov, mintmaster. Dated 1762. ΠETPЪ • III • Б • M • IMП • ICAMOДEPЖ • BCEPOC, C П Б in exergue, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MOHETA • ПOЛTИHA • 1762, 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; н-к flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Bitkin 13; Severin 1876; Uzdenikov 935. NGC photo graded AU 50, nicely toned with lovely planchet and fields. A very rare coin of a very short reign. Bitkin lists as rare.

Ex Goldberg 16 (23 September 2002), lot 1355.