CNG 94, Lot: 1853. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Empire. Ekaterina II Velikaya (the Great). 1762-1796. AR Rouble (36mm, 23.01 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Yakov Chernishev, mintmaster. Crowned bust right / Crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; above, imperial crown; я-ч flanking tail. On edge: grained right. Diakov 339; Bitkin 221; Severin 2112; Uzdenikov 1075. EF, lightly toned.

From the James Fox Collection. Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior, 11 February 1991), lot 477.