Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1577. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Ekaterina II Velikaya (the Great). 1762-1796. AR Poltina (11.53 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Ivan Sabelnikov, mintmaster. Dated 1796. Б • M • EKATEPИHA • II • IMП • ICAMOД • BCEPOCC •, C П Б in exergue, crowned bust right / MOHETA • ПOЛTИHA • 1796, 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-с flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Bitkin 327; Severin 2352; Uzdenikov 1260. NGC photo graded MS 61, this specimen has superb fields and is extremely rare in this grade and as a type. Brilliant uncirculated. An extremely choice example of an Ekaterina II poltina.

Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior, 11 February 1991), lot 516.