Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1073. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Pavl I Petrovich. 1796-1801. AR Rouble (29.26 g, 12h). Novodel issue. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Feodor 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; all within ornate square frame; с.м. and Ф.ц in lower corners. On edge: grained right. Bitkin H19; Severin -; Uzdenikov 1266 var. (с.м. and м.Б in lower corners of rev.); Elmen XXI, lot 401 (same dies). In NGC slab graded MS 62, toned.