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10 Roubles - Alexander III
| Issuer | Saint Petersburg Mint |
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| Year | 1886-1894 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles (10 Рублей) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The Imperial Russian double-headed eagle displayed at centre, each head surmounted by a crown and the whole device surmounted by a large Imperial crown. The eagle's wings are spread and detailed with shield-bearing vignettes of the various Russian territories on the wing panels; the central shield on the breast bears St. George slaying the dragon. The eagle holds an orb in its right talon and a sceptre in its left. Below the eagle, the denomination '10 РУБЛЕЙ' and the year appear in two lines, all within a beaded dentilated border. |
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These gold imperials funded the final push of Russian railway expansion under Alexander III, whose reign saw the Trans-Siberian line authorized in 1891 — a project so capital-intensive it strained Imperial treasury reserves for a generation. The coins were struck under tight supervision at Saint Petersburg following the monetary reforms that stabilized the rouble against western European gold standards, a priority Alexander pursued partly to secure French loan agreements that would eventually underpin the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894.
Fr#167 is well-documented in Friedberg with relatively consistent mintage across the emission years, though 1894 pieces are notably scarcer — Alexander died in November of that year.