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10 000 Roubles The European Beaver
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Mintage | 2008 ММД - Proof; Moscow Mint - 100 |
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Issued under the Bank of Russia's ongoing wildlife conservation series, this piece belongs to a program that has used large-format gold and silver issues since the early 1990s to draw attention to endangered and protected fauna under Russian federal law. The European beaver (Castor fiber) had been hunted nearly to extinction across the continent by the early twentieth century; Russian populations in the Voronezh reserve, established in 1927 specifically for beaver rehabilitation, became the primary source for reintroduction programs across Europe.
The 1 kg .999 gold format places this among the most substantial bullion-adjacent commemoratives in the Russian federal coinage program — mintages on issues of this size rarely exceeded 100 pieces.