Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1600. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AR Poltina (10.32 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Pavl Alexeiev, mintmaster. Dated 1850. ЧИCTAГO CEPEБPA 2 ЗOЛOTHИKA 10½ ДOЛEЙ, crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb; coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei Первозванного (the First Called) on breast; arms of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Novosibirsk on right wing, Kingdom of Poland, Crimea, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; above, imperial crown; п-A flanking tail / MOHETA/ПOЛTИHA/(ornamental spacer)/1850/C.П.Б. in five lines across field; imperial crown above; all within laurel and oak wreath. On edge: • CEP • 83 1/3 ПPOБЫ 2 ЗOЛ • 41 7/25 ДOЛ. Bitkin 263; Severin 3568; Uzdenikov 1679. NGC photo graded MS 65, superbly toned with multi-colored iridescences of blue, green, gold, and russet. Gem brilliant proof or proof-like uncirculated.

Ex Heiberg Collection (Giessener Münzhandlung 85, 14 October 1997), lot 935.