Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1609. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich. 1881-1894. AR 10 Zlotniks Affinage Ingot (42.82 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. 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, Kingdom of Poland, Crimea, and United Principal Russian Grand Duchies on right wing, Astrakhan, and Novosibirsk, Caucasus, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; above, filleted imperial crown; A-дflanking tail; all with circular line frame / 990/ПPOБA/10/ЗOЛOTHИKOBЪ in four lines across field. Plain edge. Bitkin 258; Severin 4206; Uzdenikov, p. 656. NGC photo graded MS 64. A flawless uncirculated specimen and one of the finest examples of this type known.

Purchased from M. L. Teller, 1984. Ex World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen).

Designed for the Far Eastern Trade or Eastern Russia Trade.