249, Lot: 440. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Ekaterina II Velikaya (the Great). Empress, 1762-1796. AR Rubl (38mm, 22.88 g, 12h). Sankt-Petrburg (St. Petersburg) mint, Alexei Shneze, mintmaster. Dated 1771. Crowned and draped bust right / Crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing, with wings spread, holding scepter and orb; [on breast, Order of St. Andrew (the First Called) around coat-of-arms of Moskva]; crown above. Bitkin 211; Uzdenikov 1040; KM 67a.2. Fine, toned.