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15 Roubles - Nicholas II
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1700-1917) |
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| Obverse lettering | Б.М.НИКОЛАЙ II ИМПЕРАТОРЪ И САМОДЕРЖЕЦЪ ВСЕРОСС. (Translation: By the grace of God Nicholas II Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia) |
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| Mintage | 1897 АГ - - 11,900,033 |
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The 15-rouble denomination was struck only in 1897, introduced specifically to facilitate the gold standard reform engineered by Finance Minister Sergei Witte. The conversion pegged the rouble at two-thirds its previous gold value, meaning the new 15-rouble coin contained exactly the same gold as the old imperial 10-rouble piece — a deliberate accounting convenience that made the transition arithmetically clean for the treasury.
The denomination was abandoned almost immediately. By 1898 the mint had shifted to 10- and 5-rouble coins as the working denominations of the reformed system, leaving this single-year issue as the only evidence the 15-rouble unit ever existed.