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100 Roubles A. P. Chekhov
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse lettering | СТО РУБЛЕЙ БАНК РОССИИ • Ag 925 • 2010 г. • 1 КГ СПМД • (Translation: One Hundred Roubles Bank of Russia SPMD) |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic (cursive) |
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Chekhov died in 1904, and this issue marks the 150th anniversary of his birth. The Bank of Russia has produced kilogram-class silver commemoratives in this format since the early 1990s, typically in mintages under 500 pieces — low enough that secondary market examples seldom appear outside specialist Russian auctions. Chekhov's association with Sakhalin Island, documented in his 1895 nonfiction account of the penal colony there, gave him a peculiarly uncomfortable place in Soviet cultural memory: celebrated as a literary giant, yet the Sakhalin work remained ideologically awkward for decades.