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1 Rouble - Peter III 1762
| Issuer | Saint Petersburg Mint |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Peter III facing right, depicted in armour with ornate collar and epaulette detail, rendered in high relief in a classical 18th-century style. The portrait is uncrowned and shows the emperor in a military cuirass with decorative elements at the shoulder. A Cyrillic legend curves around the upper periphery reading ПЕТРЪ III Б М ИМП И САМОДЕРЖ ВСЕРОС, denoting his imperial and autocratic titles. The mint mark СПБ (Saint Petersburg) appears in the lower field beneath the bust. |
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| Mintage | ND (2009) СПБ |
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This is a 2009 Russian Federation commemorative restrike reproducing the rouble coinage of Peter III, whose reign lasted just 186 days before Catherine the Great's coup of July 1762 ended it — and him. Peter's original roubles are among the more accessible eighteenth-century Russian crown-sized pieces, partly because he managed to issue coinage before the coup but partly because Catherine's government did not immediately withdraw them.
The copper restrike format was chosen deliberately to distinguish modern commemorative issues from the original silver production, a practice the Russian mint has applied consistently across its historical reissue program.