Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2039. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Alexei Mikhailovich. 1645-1676. AR Yefimok (Jefimok) (25.31 g, 12h). Dated 1655. A taler of Augsburg, dated 1629, countermarked on reverse with two punches: horseman right with monogram below in dotted circle (Type I) and date in plain rectangle (Type III). Coin: Davenport 5035; KM 61; Countermarks: Efimki 1461a (this coin); Kaim I p. 126-129; KM -. Coin VF, c/ms VF, toned.($1000)

Ex Willy Fuchs Collection (Sotheby's, 24-25 April 1997), lot 165; purchased from Münzhandlung Gaettens of Lübeck, 5 April 1983.

Spasski does not comment on the light weight of this taler. It is in fact a contemporary cast counterfeit to which the yefimok countermarks were applied.