Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1274. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr I Pavlovich. 1801-1825. AV 5 Roubles (6.53 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Fedor Gelman, mintmaster. Dated 1817. “Five Roubles. Year 1817” in Cyrillic, double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding one end of banner, lightning bolts and flaming torches in right talon, and wreath and other end of banner in left; mintmasters’ initials under each end of banner / “Unalloyed/Gold/1 Zloty=/39 Dolyas”/(ornamental spacer)/mintmark in Cyrillic in six lines across field; all within olive and oak wreath; imperial crown above. Bitkin 18; Uzdenikov 193; Friedberg 150; KM (Y)132. In an NGC slab graded AU 50, toned.