Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1587. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $42500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr I Pavlovich. 1801-1825. AR Rouble (20.58 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Fedor Gelman, mintmaster. Dated 1810. MOHETA PУБЛЬ • 1810, 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; Ф-г flanking tail / ГOCУДAP=/CTBEHHAЯ/POCCIЙCKAЯ/MOHETA/PУБЛЬ./C.ПБ in six lines across field; all within laurel and oak wreath. On edge: BOCEMДECЯTЬ TPETEИ CЬ OДHOЮ TPETЬЮ ПPOБЫ. Bitkin 75; Severin 2602; Uzdenikov 1384. NGC photo graded MS 66, an iridescently toned example of the final “wings up” design. Another among the finest known which dots this collection.

Purchased from M. L. Teller, January 1990.