Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1601. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AR Rouble (20.74 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nikolai Iossa, mintmaster. Dated 1853. (flower) ЧИCTAГO CEPEБPA 4 ЗOЛOTHИKA 21 ДOЛЯ, 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; н-I flanking tail / MOHETA/PУБЛЬ/(ornamental spacer)/1853/C.П.Б. in five lines across field; imperial crown above; all within laurel and oak wreath; letters of PУБЛЬ apart. On edge: • CEP • 83 1/3 ПPOБЫ 4 ЗOЛ • 82 14/25 ДOЛИ. Bitkin 231; Severin 3613; Uzdenikov 1704. NGC photo graded MS 66. The ultimate type coin, this specimen is as fresh as the day it was struck.

Purchased from World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen), August 1980.