Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1278. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. Platinum 3 Roubles (10.35 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1828. Crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb, coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei the First Called on breast; arms of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Novosibirsk on right wing, Kingdom of Poland, Crimea and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; imperial crown above / (rose) “2 Zol• 41 Dol• Unalloyed Ural Platinum, _ 3 _/Rubles/in Silver”/(ornamental spacer)/1828/mintmark in Cyrillic in six lines across field. Bitkin 73; Uzdenikov 362; Friedberg 160; KM (C)177. In an NGC slab graded PF 63. Rare.