Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1259. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Petr I Alexeyevich Velikiy (Peter the Great). 1682-1725. AV 2 Roubles (4.15 g, 12h). Moskva (Moscow) mint; Jean (Ivan) Lang, mintmaster. Dated 1718. “Tsar Petr, Autocrat of all Russia” in Cyrillic, laureate, draped, and armored bust right / “New coin weight 2 Roubles” •1718 in Cyrillic, St. Andrei the First Called standing facing on low base, holding cross; L on base at left. Bitkin 68; Uzdenikov 25; Friedberg 91; KM (C)158.1. Good VF, once lightly cleaned, now retoning. Rare.