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100 Roubles Kalmykia
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At center of the deeply mirrored field, the Russian state emblem — a double-headed eagle with wings displayed, rendered in high relief without a shield on its breast — occupies the inner circle defined by a fine beaded border. The denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ (One Hundred Roubles) arcs prominently across the upper field in large Cyrillic letters. Below the eagle, along the lower arc of the beaded border, the legend БАНК РОССИИИ (Bank of Russia) appears in Cyrillic. Additional inscriptions in the outer field record the silver fineness (Ag 925), the weight specification (1 КГ), the mint mark ММД for the Moscow Mint, and the year of issue 2009 Г. The engraver's initials appear discreetly to the lower right of the eagle. |
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| Mint | (ММД) Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор), Russia (?-date) |
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Kalmykia is the only Buddhist-majority republic within the Russian Federation, a demographic fact rooted in the westward migration of the Oirat Mongols in the early 17th century. The 2009 Bank of Russia regional series used these large-format silver pieces to document the constituent republics systematically — a program driven partly by post-Soviet nation-building politics and partly by the collector market that had grown around Russian commemoratives through the 1990s and 2000s.
At over a kilogram of .925 silver, production runs for pieces of this specification were necessarily small. Mintage figures for the regional issues in this format rarely exceeded 500 pieces.