Mintage of 121 Pieces

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1288. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. Platinum 6 Roubles (20.71 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1842. 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) “4 Zol• 82 Dol• Unalloyed Ural Platinum, _ 6 _/Roubles/in Silver”/(ornamental spacer)/1842/mintmark in Cyrillic in six lines across field. Bitkin 69; Uzdenikov 402; Friedberg 159; KM (C)178. In an NGC slab graded PF 64 Cameo. Very rare.

Bitkin cites a mintage of 121 pieces for this issue.