Crowned bust of Empress Elizabeth I to right., Crowned coats of arms of four tsardoms: Moscow (top), Astrakhan (left), Kazan (right), Siberia (bottom). Coat of arms of Russian Empire in the center., An extremely rare coin, only a few examples are known from the Moscow mint. This is one of the rarest and most sought-after Empress Elizabeth coins. Very fine quality, despite cleaning having altered the orange patina still visible in the legends. The deep black marks are probably the result of a fire, from which the coin would have been extracted. The flan, and in particular the reverse (which is generally at the bottom of a coin cabinet and therefore the first to come into contact with the heat), has been very hot in several places, to the point of cracking., Б·М·ЕЛИСАВЕТЪ·I·IМП·IСАМОД·ВСЕРОС, ИМПРСКАЯ РОССIЙС МОН · ЦЕНА ДЕСЯТ.РƔБ / 1-7-5-6