Live auction - fwo_961392 - RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I 5 Roubles 1851 Saint-Pétersbourg
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Live starting : Type : 5 Roubles
Date: 1851
Mint name / Town : Saint-Pétersbourg
Quantity minted : 3800002
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,59 g.
Edge : rainurée en creux
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie présente des traces de nettoyage à l’avers et au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE) АГ.
Obverse description : Aigle bicéphale héraldique couronnée, timbrée de sept écus.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE) ЧИСТАГО ЗОЛОТА 1 ЗОЛОТНИКЪ 39 ДОЛЕЙ * // * 5 * / РУБЛЕЙ / 1856 / С.П.Б..
Reverse description : Au centre : 5 Roubles 1856.
Reverse translation : (Or pur 1 zolotnik 39 dolas).
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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