Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1287. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. 3 Rubles - 20 Zlotych (3.89 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Pavl Danilov, mintmaster. Dated 1838. 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, Caucasus, Crimea and Grand Duchy of Finland on left; imperial crown above; mintmaster’s initials flanking tail / “Unalloyed gold 81 Dolyas, _ 3 _/“Roubles.” in Cyrillic/20 ZLOTYCH./1838./mintmark in six lines across field. Bitkin 1079; Uzdenikov 4134; Friedberg 111 (Poland); KM (C)136.2 (Poland). In an NGC slab graded MS 63. Rare.