Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2105. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Nicholas I. 1825-1855. AR 25 Kopeks. St. Petersburg mint; Nikolai Grachev, mintmaster. Dated 1827. Double-headed imperial eagle with crown above, holding arrows and wreath with long fillet, shield of St. George on breast / Crown above legend, all in wreath of laurel and oak. Bitkin 124; Uzdenikov 1514; Severin 2902; KM 159. In NGC slab, graded MS65. ($500)