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150 Roubles Ioann Veniaminov
| Issuer | Leningrad Mint |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | 250 ЛЕТ ОТКРЫТИЯ РУССКОЙ АМЕРИКИ Иоанн Вениаминов - миссионер и просветитель (Translation: 250th Anniversary of the Discovery of Russian America Ioann Veniaminov, missionary and educator) |
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Issued in the final months of the Soviet Union, this coin honors Ioann Veniaminov — the 19th-century Orthodox missionary who spent decades among the Aleut and Tlingit peoples of Russian America before becoming Metropolitan of Moscow in 1868. The Leningrad Mint struck this piece under a government that would cease to exist within months of its release, making the institutional attribution quietly anomalous: the mint itself was renamed to the Saint Petersburg Mint in 1991.
Part of a platinum commemorative program the Soviet state launched in its dying years, partly to generate hard currency from Western collectors and bullion buyers.