Very Rare Five Roubles

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1277. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AV 5 Roubles (6.51 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Paul Danilov, mintmaster. Dated 1827. “Five Roubles. Year 1827” 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; mintmaster’s 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 2; Uzdenikov 202; Friedberg 154; KM (C)174. In an NGC slab graded VF 30. Very rare.