fwo_969498 - RUSSIA - CATHERINE II 20 kopecks 1788 Saint-Pétersbourg
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Type : 20 kopecks
Date: 1788
Mint name / Town : Saint-Pétersbourg
Quantity minted : 2376125
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,16 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante sur les motifs centraux
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE.
Obverse description : Buste couronné Catherine II à droite ; au-dessous marque d’atelier.
Obverse translation : (Par la grâce de Dieu, Catherine II impératrice et autocrate de toute la Russie).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale éployée couronnée sous une couronne plus large, portant en cœur un cartouche contenant le chiffre 20 et tenant un sceptre et un globe crucigère ; au-dessous le millésime sur un bandeau. Autour 20 points (indication de valeur).
Historical background
RUSSIA - CATHERINE II
(07/17/1762-11/17/1796)
Catherine (2/05/1729-17/11/1796) was the greatest tsarina after Peter the Great. She succeeded her husband, Pierre III, who was deposed in 1762 before being assassinated by the Orloff brothers. His very long reign brought Russia into the "Age of Enlightenment". Friend of the philosophers including Diderot from whom she bought his library, liberal, she nevertheless reinforced the despotism and the nationalization of Russia. She fought against the Turks and was an opponent of the French Revolution.
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