Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2108. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Nicholas I. 1825-1855. AV 5 Rubles. St. Petersburg mint; Paul Danilov, mintmaster. Dated 1828. Double-headed imperial eagle with crown above, holding arrows and wreath with fillet, shield of St. George on breast / Crown above legend, all in wreath of laurel and oak. Bitkin 3; Uzdenikov 203; Severin 403; KM 174; Friedberg 154. In NGC slab, graded MS63. ($500)

Ex Dr. Robert Hesselgesser Collection (Goldberg's, 7 June 2000), lot 4174.