Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1597. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $60000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AR 1½ Roubles (31.15 g, 12h). Unveiling of the Pamyatnik-Chasovni na Borodinskom Polye issue. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1839. AЛEKCAHДPЪ ПEPBЫЙ Б . M . ИMПEPATOPЬ BCEPOC., head of Aleksandr I Pavlovich right; H. GUBE F. on truncation of neck; below head, laurel-entwined sword right; above, radiant eye of God with short rays / БOPOДИHO 26 ABГУС. 1812 Г. OTKPЫTЬ 26 ABГУС. 1839 Г., 1½ PУБЛЯ in exergue, Monument to the Russian Dead at Borodino: octagonal column, surmounted by gilded angled sphere and cross, set on Gothic-style octagonal pedestal; all set on three-tiered base. Grained edge. Bitkin 893; Severin 3307; Uzdenikov 4191. NGC photo graded MS 63, wonderfully toned iridescent color over fully proof-like fields. A choice uncirculated piece originally bought as a proof by its prior owner. Very rare.

Purchased from M. L. Teller, May 2001.

This rouble commemorates the Battle of Borodino (7 September 1812) and celebrates the defeat of Napoleon’s Grande Armée.