Friedberg Plate Coin

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1262. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Anna Ioannovna. 1730-1740. AV Ducat (4.21 g, 12h). Dated 7 C 1739. “Anna, by the grace of God, Empress and Autocrat of all Russia” in Cyrillic, crowned bust right / “Slavic Command” /7 • ë • 1739 • in two lines in exergue; all in Cyrillic, eagle perched left on crossed banners, head right, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; arms clustered around. Bitkin Zh417; Uzdenikov -; Friedberg 108 (plate coin = this coin); KM -. In an NGC slab graded MS 62. Small C countermark in left field of obverse. Rare.

Ex Superior (27 May 2001), lot 2560; Hutten-Czapski Collection with his collector’s mark.