fwo_761562 - RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I 10 Kopecks aigle bicéphale 1854 Saint-Petersbourg
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Type : 10 Kopecks aigle bicéphale
Date: 1854
Mint name / Town : Saint-Petersbourg
Quantity minted : 1000000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 868 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,10 g.
Rarity : R1
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE / H-I.
Obverse description : Aigle bicéphale héraldique couronné.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE) 1854.
Reverse description : Légende cyrillique dans une couronne formée d'une branche d'olivier et d'une branche de chêne surmontée d'une petite couronne.
Reverse translation : (10 Kopeks) 1854.
Historical background
RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I
(1/12/1825-2/03/1855)
Nicholas I (7/07/1796-2/03/1855), second son of Paul I, is the brother of Alexander I and Grand Duke Constantin. On the death of his brother Alexander I, on December 1, 1825, and after the renunciation of his brother Constantine, he became Tsar of all the Russias and began by repressing the liberal movement of the Decembrists and then the uprising in Poland in 1831. After favoring the liberation of Greece, he poses as a defender of the Slavs and opposes the Turks. He finds on his way the English and the French. He died before the defeat of the Crimean War.
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