Wonderful Cameo Proof

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1286. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AV 5 Roubles (6.53 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Pavl Danilov, mintmaster. Dated 1836. 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; mintmaster’s initials flanking tail / (eight-petaled flower) “Unalloyed gold 1 Zolotnik 39 Dolyas, (rosette) 5 (rosette)/Roubles”/(ornamental spacer)/1836/mintmark in Cyrillic in five lines across field. Bitkin 13; Uzdenikov 213; Friedberg 155; KM (C)175.1. In an NGC slab graded PF 64 Cameo.