Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1581. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $72500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Pavl I Petrovich. 1796-1801. AR Poltina (14.58 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Feodor Tsetreus, mintmaster. Dated 1797. ПOЛ TИHA 1797. ГOДA, crowned cruciform П monogram; I in center / HE HAMБ,/HE HAMБ,/A ИMЯHИ/TBOEMУ. in four lines across field; all within ornate square frame; с.м. and Ф.ц in lower corners. On edge: grained right. Bitkin 21; Severin 2403; Uzdenikov 1367. NGC photo graded MS 60, lustrous, proof-like fields. A wonderful example of a one-year type. A lovely specimen worthy of the finest numismatic cabinet.

Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior, 11 February 1991), lot 640.