Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2407. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Alexander I. 1801-1825. Æ 5 Kopecks (58.40 g, 12h). Ekaterinburg mint. Dated 1803. Large crowned double-headed imperial Russian eagle facing with wings displayed, coat-of-arms on breast, holding sceptre and globus cruciger, crown above, within quadruple-lined border containing five pellets within double annulets; oblique reeding on edge / “5 Kopecks” in Russian in two lines across fields; 1803 below, within quadruple-lined border containing five pellets within double annulets. Bitikin 288; cf. Brekke 112. EF, brown patina. Very rare variety.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.