Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2153. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Nicholas I. 1825-1855. AR Ruble. St. Petersburg mint; Nikolai Grachev, mintmaster. Dated 1841. 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. Edge variety cannot be determined. Bitkin 192-193; Uzdenikov 1597; Severin 3363; Davenport 283; KM 168.1. In NGC slab, graded MS65. Attractive lustre. ($600)