294, Lot: 980. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Empire. Aleksandr II Nikolaevich. 1855-1881. AR Rouble (36mm, 20.74 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nikolai Follendorf, mintmaster. Dated 1878. Crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb, coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei 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; filleted imperial crown above; mintmaster’s initials flanking tail / Value, date, and mint in three lines; all within wreath; crown above. Bitkin 92; Severin 3889; Uzhdenikov 1933. EF, lightly toned, trace of underlying luster.