Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1580. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Pavl I Petrovich. 1796-1801. AR Heavy Rouble (29.50 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Fedor Tsetreus, mintmaster. Dated 1797. MOHETA ЦEHA POБЛЬ 1797, crowned cruciform П monogram; I in center / HE HAMБ,/HE HAMБ,/A ИMЯHИ/TBOEMУ. in four lines across field; all within ornate square frame; с.м. and Ф.ц in lower corners. On edge: grained right. Bitkin 18; Severin 2405; Uzdenikov 1265. NGC photo graded MS 62, smoothing in second quarter of obverse. This example, a one year type, is very elusive this choice.

Purchased from M. L. Teller, October 1989.

Pavl I was the only son of Ekaterina II and her assassinated husband, Petr III. Pavl ruled only a short period, was considered mad, and was assassinated in a palace coup in 1801.