Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2029. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Alexei Mikhailovich. 1645-1676. AR Yefimok (Jefimok) (27.94 g, 12h). Dated 1655. A taler of Volkmar Wolfgang of Hohnstein, dated [15]70, countermarked on obverse with two punches: horseman right with monogram below in dotted circle (Type I) and date in plain rectangle (Type III). Coin: Davenport 9313; Countermarks: Efimki 1149 (this coin); Kaim I p. 126-129; KM -. Coin VF, c/ms good VF, toned. The only known Hohnstein Taler with yefimok countermarks. ($1500)

Ex Willy Fuchs Collection (Sotheby's, 24-25 April 1997), lot 122; purchased from Münzen Weiss of Vienna, 3 June 1977.