393, Lot: 311. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Empire. temp. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AV Ducat (21mm, 3.48 g, 12h). In the types of the Netherlands trade coinage. Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint, with marks of Utrecht. Dated 1849 (though struck through 1867/8). Knight standing right, holding sword and bundle of arrows / Legend in four lines within ornate tablet. Bitkin 35; Severin, Gold –; Uzdenikov pp. 641-644 and fig. 17, 7; Friedberg 161. VF, ex jewelry.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection.