Watch List notes:

POLAND, Królestwo Kongresowe (Congress Poland). Nikolai I Pavlovich. 1825-1855. AV 3 Roubles – 20 Złotych (12mm, 3.93 g, 12h). Warszawa (Warsaw) mint. Dated 1834 MW. Crowned double-headed imperial eagle facing with wings displayed, holding scepter and orb, coat-of-arms of Moskva framed by Order of St. Andrei Первозванного (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 / ЧИСТАГО ЗОЛОТА 81 ДОЛЯ., Ⴞ 3 Ⴞ/РУВЛЯ./20/ZŁOTYCH/1834 in five lines. Kopicki 9460; MP 1046a; Bitkin 1124; Uzdenikov –; KM (C) 136.1; Friedberg 113. EF, traces of underlying luster, some circulation marks.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Lighthouse Collection (Stack's, 16 June 1978), lot 327.