Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1071. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr III Fyodorovitch. 1762. AR Rouble (23.84 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nazar Kutuzov, mintmaster. Dated 1762. ΠETPЪ • III • Б • M • IMП • ICAMOДEPЖ • BCEPOC •, C П Б in exergue, bareheaded, draped, and armored bust right / MOHETA • P(OУ)БЛЬ • 17 62, 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; imperial crown above, н-к flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Diakov 7 var. (no pellet at end of obv. legend); Bitkin 11 var. (same); Severin 1882; Uzdenikov 924. In an NGC slab graded AU 55, toned.