10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Catherine Palace

Catherine Palace, the baroque imperial residence at Tsarskoye Selo, was looted by German forces in 1941 — most infamously, the Amber Room was systematically dismantled and shipped west, never conclusively recovered. The palace itself was left a gutted shell. Soviet restoration began almost immediately after the war and continued for decades, with the Amber Room finally reconstructed from archival photographs and completed only in 2003.

This issue belongs to the proliferating category of fractional gold miniatures produced for the collector market, struck at 0.5 g in four-nines fine gold — a format with no circulation intent whatsoever.