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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1289. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RUSSIA, Tsars of Russia. Aleksandr II Nikolaevich. 1855-1881. AV 5 Roubles (6.54 g, 12h). Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg) mint; Mikhail Ivanov, mintmaster. Dated 1863. 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; mintmaster’s initials flanking tail / (eight-petaled flower) “Unalloyed gold 1 Zolotnik 39 Dolyas, (rosette) 5 (rosette)/Roubles”/(ornamental spacer)/1863/mintmark in Cyrillic in five lines across field. Bitkin 9; Uzdenikov 245; Friedberg 163; KM (Y)B26. In an NGC slab graded MS 65.