309, Lot: 468. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Empire. Nikolai II . 1894-1917. AR Rouble (34mm, 19.95 g, 1h). Commemorating the tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1913. Busts of Nikolai II and Michael I facing slightly right / Crowned, double-headed imperial eagle. Bitkin 336; KM (Y) 70. EF, attractive cabinet tone.

The Romanov dynasty was not fated to last much longer than the time this tercentenary issue was struck. In 1917, Nikolai abdicated after the February Revolution. He, along with his immediate family and four servants, were executed by Bolsheviks in July of the following year while under house arrest.