Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1640. Estimate $25000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $240000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich. 1894-1917. AV Pattern 5 Roubles - 1/2 Imperial. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Elikum Babayantz, mintmaster. Dated 1895. Б. M. HИKOЛAЙ II ИMПEPATOPЪ И CAMOДEPЖEЦЪ BCEPOCC., head left / ПOЛ(OУ)ИMПEPIAЛЪ (rosette) 5 P(OУ)БЛЄЙ ЗOЛOTHИMЪ. 1895 Г. (rosette), 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, filleted imperial crown. Bitkin 309; Uzdenikov 316; Friedberg 157. In NGC slab graded AU 50. Extremely rare; only 36 minted.