Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2158. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Nicholas I. 1825-1855. AR Novodel Proof Poltina. St. Petersburg mint; Alexei Chadov, mintmaster. Dated 1842. 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 249; Uzdenikov 1603; Severin 3393; KM 167.1. In PCGS slab, graded PF65. ($7500)