Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1575. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $5600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Ekaterina II Velikaya (the Great). 1762-1796. AR Rouble (23.89 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Ivan Zaitsev, mintmaster. Dated 1781. Б • M • EKATEPИHA • II • IMП • ICAMOД • BCEPOC •, C П Б in exergue, crowned bust right / MOHETA • P(OУ)БЛЬ • 17 81, 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; и-з flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Bitkin 230; Severin 2172; Uzdenikov 1110. NGC photo graded MS 62, well struck with lovely russet and blue hues and excellent fields.

Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior, 11 February 1991), lot 486.