Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1292. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr II Nikolaevich. 1855-1881. AV 5 Roubles (6.53 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Nikolai Iossa, mintmaster. Dated 1876. 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, Novosibirsk, Caucasus, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; filleted imperial crown above; H-I flanking tail / (eight-petaled flower) “Unalloyed gold 1 Zolotnik 39 Dolyas, _ 5 _/Roubles/(ornamental spacer)/1876/mintmark in Cyrillic in five lines across field. Bitkin 24; Uzdenikov 267; Friedberg 163; KM (Y)B26. In an NGC slab graded MS 61.