Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1276. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr I Pavlovich. 1801-1825. AV 5 Roubles (6.54 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Pavl Stupitzyn, mintmaster. Dated 1824. “Five Roubles. Year 1824” 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; Ô-Ò under each end of banner / “Unalloyed/Gold/1 Zloty=/39 Dolya”/(ornamental spacer)/mintmark in Cyrillic in six lines across field; all within olive and oak wreath; imperial crown above. Bitkin 23; Uzdenikov 198; Friedberg 150; KM (C)132 . In an NGC slab graded MS 62.