Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1583. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Pavl I Petrovich. 1796-1801. AR Reichstaler (22.04 g, 12h). Jever, Germany mint. Dated 1798. SUB • UMBRA • ALARUM • TUARUM •, crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; coat-of-arms of Moskau on breast; above, imperial crown / • FRIED • AUG • SOPH • PRINC • ANH • DYN • IEVER • ADMIN ., EIN/REICHS/THALER/1798 in four lines across field; all within laurel wreath. On edge: pelleted chain . Bitkin -; Severin -; Uzdenikov 4930; Davenport 2363; KM 16. NGC photo graded MS 63, toned, semi proof-like and is quite stunning. A very beautiful and lustrous uncirculated coin.

Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior, 11 February 1991), lot 693.

Jever was a duchy in Germany inherited by Pavl I from his mother. It was adminstered by his aunt, Friederike, the widow of Friederich August, the younger brother of Ekaterina II.