Very Rare Platinum 12 Roubles

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1283. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. Platinum 12 Roubles (41.50 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint. Dated 1832. 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, Caucasus, and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; imperial crown above / (rose) “9 Zol• 68 Dol• Unalloyed Ural Platinum, _ 12 _/Roubles/in Silver”/(ornamental spacer)/1831/mintmark in Cyrillic in six lines across field. Bitkin 41; Uzdenikov 371; Friedberg 158; KM (C)179. EF or better, light hairlines. Very rare.