Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1267. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Ekaterina II Velikaya (the Great). 1762-1796. AV 5 Roubles (6.49 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1768/7. “By the grace of God, Ekaterina II, Emp(ress) and Autocrat of all Russia” in Cyrillic; mintmark in exergue, crowned bust right; TI on truncation / “Russian Empire, money weight 5 Roubles” in Cyrillic, crowned cruciform coats-of-arms crowned cruciform coats-of-arms of Moskva, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Astrkhan in ornate frames around central imperial Russian coat-of-arms; flowers at angles; 1–7–6–8/7 in voids. Cf. Bitkin 63; cf. Uzdenikov 121; Friedberg 129a; KM (C)79a. In an NGC slab graded XF 40, small hairline flan crack.