Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1290. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr II Nikolaevich. 1855-1881. AV 3 Roubles (3.90 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nikolai Iossa, mintmaster. Dated 1870. 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, Kingdom of Poland, Crimea, and United Principal Russian Grand Duchies on right wing, Astrakhan, and Novosibirsk, Caucasus, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; filleted imperial crown above; H-I flanking tail / (eight-petaled flower) “Unalloyed gold 81 Dolyas, ¨ 3 ¨/Roubles”/(ornamental spacer)/1870/mintmark in Cyrillic in five lines across field. Bitkin 32; Uzdenikov 256; Friedberg 164; KM (Y)26. In an NGC slab graded MS 63.