Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1582. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Pavl I Petrovich. 1796-1801. AR Poltina (10.43 g, 12h). “Light” issue. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Mikhail Bobrovshchikov, mintmaster. Dated 1798. ПOЛ TИHA 1798 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 м.Б in lower corners. On edge: grained right. Bitkin 48; Severin 2424; Uzdenikov 1282. NGC photo graded MS 63, nicely patinated with much luster. Choice uncirculated.

Ex Goldberg 16 (23 September 2002), lot 1364.

The second variety of this type in lighter weight.