Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2080. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Catherine II, the Great. 1762-1796. AR Medal (176.25 g, 12h). After the engravers Johann Baptista Gass and Mikhail Kutschkin. For the St. Petersburg Progressive Agricultural Society. 19th century restrike of the 1768 original. Crowned and draped bust right / Ceres seated on wheat sheaves beneath a tree, holding a winged caduceus and offering a wreath to an industrious farmer plowing his fields; legend on exergual line. Smirnov 253. Good VF, toned, numerous handling marks. An impressive silver medal. ($1000)