Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1074. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr I Pavlovich. 1801-1825. AR Rouble (20.85 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Fedor Gelman, mintmaster. Dated 1807. MOHETA РУБЛЬ (pellet-in-annulet) 1807, 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/POCCЇЙCKAЯ/MOHETA/ (ornamental divider)/C.П Б. in six lines; imperial crown above; all within laurel and oak wreath. On edge: ВOCEMДECЯTЪ TPETEИ CЪ OДHOЮ TPETЬЮ. Bitkin 68; Severin 2572/2569 (obv./rev.); cf. Uzdenikov 1367. In NGC slab graded MS 62. Very rare.

Ex Gustav Klingert Collection (A. Hess, 30 May 1910), lot 2148.