Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2041. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Alexei Mikhailovich. 1645-1676. AR Yefimok (Jefimok) (28.60 g, 1h). Dated 1655. A taler of Sigismund III of Poland, dated 1627, countermarked on obverse with two punches: horseman right with monogram below in dotted circle (Type II) and date in plain rectangle (Type IV). Coin: Davenport 4315; KM 44; Countermarks: Efimki 1654 (this coin); Kaim I p. 126-129; KM -. Coin VF, c/ms good VF, toned, flan crack. The Type II, larger horseman punch is overstruck on a Type I punch.($1000)

Ex Willy Fuchs Collection (Sotheby's, 24-25 April 1997), lot 192; purchased from Tellmann of Vienna, May 1970.