Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2132. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Nicholas I. 1825-1855. AR Poltina. St. Petersburg mint; Nikolai Grachev, mintmaster. Dated 1835. Double-headed imperial eagle with crown above, holding sceptre and orb, shield of St. George on breast with six provincial coats-of-arms on wings / Crown above legend, all in wreath of laurel and oak. Bitkin 235; Uzdenikov 1562; Severin 3094; KM 167.1. In PCGS slab, graded MS66. ($500)