Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2176. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Nicholas I /Alexander II. 1825-1855-1881. AR Proof Ruble. St. Petersburg mint; Nikolai Iossa, mintmaster. Dated 1855. 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(NI)/45(AII); Uzdenikov 1720; Severin 3631 (NI)/3638(AII); Davenport 283; KM 168.1. In NGC slab, graded PF65. ($4000)