Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1263. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Yelizaveta Petrovna (Elizabeth). 1741-1762. AV Chervonetz - Ducat (3.50 g, 12h). Moskva (Moscow) mint. Dated 1749 1 Ä‚„. “By the grace of God, Elizabeth I Empress” in Cyrillic, crowned bust right / “Autocrat of all Russia” • 1749 ÄÇÉ • 1 in Cyrillic, crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb, coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei the First Called on breast; imperial crown above. Bitkin 23; Uzdenikov 57; Friedberg 113; KM (C)30.2. In an NGC slab graded AU 55, slightly wavy flan. Very rare.

Uzdenikov notes that this coin was struck from a single die pair (dies É/·).