Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2187. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA. Alexander II. 1855-1881. AR Ruble. St. Petersburg mint; Nikolai Follendorf, mintmaster. Dated 1878. Double-headed imperial eagle with crown above, holding sceptre and orb, shield of St. George on breast with eight provincial coats-of-arms on wings / Legend within wreath. Bitkin 92; Uzdenikov 1950; Severin 3889; KM 25. In NGC slab, graded MS65. ($750)