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1 Rouble - Nicholas II
| Issuer | Saint Petersburg Mint |
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| Year | 1895-1915 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble (1 Рубль) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed left-facing effigy of Emperor Nicholas II with a short beard and moustache, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair. The portrait is set within a beaded inner border, with the Cyrillic imperial legend running along the periphery. The truncation of the bust is sharply cut, typical of the academic engraving style employed at the Saint Petersburg Mint under the late Imperial period. |
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| Obverse lettering | Б.М.НИКОЛАЙ II ИМПЕРАТОРЪ И САМОДЕРЖЕЦЪ ВСЕРОСС. (Translation: By the grace of God Nicholas II Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia) |
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The standard rouble of Nicholas II's reign was struck continuously across two decades, but the series fractures into distinct sub-types based on the edge lettering and mintmaster initials — the Y#59.1, 59.2, and 59.3 distinctions tracking those incremental changes rather than any design revision. Production effectively ceased with the outbreak of war in 1914, as silver was pulled from circulation almost immediately; the 1915-dated pieces were struck in early 1915 but saw almost no genuine circulation before hoarding removed them entirely.
The mintmaster pairing "АГ" (Apollon Grashof) appears on the bulk of this run.