Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1999. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Alexei Mikhailovich. 1645-1676. AR Yefimok (Jefimok) (28.64 g, 11h). Dated 1655. A rijksdaalder of Gelderland, dated 1620, countermarked on obverse with two punches: horseman right with monogram below in dotted circle (Type I) and date in plain rectangle (Type I). Coin: Delmonte 938; KM 16.1; Countermarks: Efimki 131-132; Kaim I p. 126-129; KM 420. Coin VF, c/ms good VF, toned. Horseman weak. ($600)

Ex Willy Fuchs Collection (Sotheby's, 24-25 April 1997), lot 7; purchased from van der Bulke of Aalst, July 1985.

A graffito in the obverse field appears to be a short, poorly formed Hebrew inscription.