Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1285. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AV 5 Roubles (6.48 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Paul Danilov, mintmaster. Dated 1833. 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, Caucasus, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; imperial crown above; mintmaster’s initials flanking tail / (eight-petaled flower) “Unalloyed gold 1 Zlotnik 39 Dolyas, _ 5 _/Roubles”/(ornamental spacer)/1833/mintmark in Cyrillic in five lines across field. Bitkin 8; Uzdenikov 208; Friedberg 155; KM (C)175.1. In an NGC slab graded MS 64, minor die flaws.