Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1075. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AR Rouble (20.45 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nikolai Iossa, mintmaster. Dated 1841. (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 (A almost appears as Λ)/PУБЛЬ/(ornamental spacer)/1841/C.П.Б. in five lines; 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 -; cf. Severin 3368; cf. Uzdenikov 1597. AU, lightly toned.