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2 Roubles A.I. Solzhenitsyn
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 2 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Struck on a mirror-polished field, the obverse bears a relief depiction of the State Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation at centre. A semicircular legend reading РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ follows the upper rim, flanked on each side by paired rhombuses. Below the arms, indications of the precious metal and fineness (Ag 925) appear to the left, with the fine metal content and the Saint Petersburg Mint mark (СПМД) to the right. Three horizontal lines at the bottom of the field carry the issuing authority БАНК РОССИИ, the denomination 2 РУБЛЯ, and the year of issue 2018 г. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic (cursive) |
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Issued three years after Solzhenitsyn's centenary and ten years after his death, this coin arrived during a period of conspicuous state rehabilitation of the writer — the same government whose predecessors had expelled him in 1974 now commissioning his portrait on legal tender. The Bank of Russia's commemorative rouble series honoring cultural figures has run for decades, but Solzhenitsyn's inclusion carried an unmistakable political charge given his complicated post-Soviet reception, particularly his later nationalism and criticism of Western liberal democracy, which made him a more comfortable figure for the Russian state by the 2010s.