Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1072. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Ekaterina II Velikaya (the Great). 1762-1796. AR Rouble (23.50 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Stepan Afonasiev, mintmaster; Timofei Ivanov, engraver. Dated 1765. Б • M • EKATEPИHA • II • IMП • ICAMOД • BCEPOC, C П Б in exergue, crowned bust right; • т • I • at truncation of shoulder / 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, с-А flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Diakov 82; Bitkin 188; Severin 1961; Uzdenikov 968. Good VF, toned.