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100 Roubles St. Ferapont Monastery
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the official emblem of the Bank of Russia — a double-headed eagle with wings lowered — is depicted within a beaded circle. The semicircular legend БАНК РОССИИ (BANK OF RUSSIA) curves beneath the eagle within the inner circle. The upper rim bears the denomination legend СТО РУБЛЕЙ (ONE HUNDRED ROUBLES), while the date 2002 appears at the lower rim. The left field outside the beaded circle carries the metal purity designations Ag 900, and the right field bears the fine metal content 1 КГ and the Saint Petersburg Mint monogram СПМД. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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Part of the Bank of Russia's ongoing "Monuments of Architecture of Russia" series, this piece commemorates the Ferapontov Monastery in Vologda Oblast, founded in 1398 by the monk Ferapont. The monastery's Cathedral of the Nativity contains the only fully intact cycle of frescoes by Dionysius, the pre-eminent Russian iconographer of the late 15th century, painted in 1502 — a fact that drove UNESCO World Heritage designation in 2000, just two years before this coin's issue.
At over a kilogram of .900 silver, these large-format commemoratives were struck in strictly limited quantities and saw no circulation whatsoever.