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| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Thickness | 2.40 mm |
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| Reverse description | At left, a portrait of the physicist Ilya Mikhailovich Frank faces right in profile, rendered with fine engraving detail. To the right of the portrait, a stylised graphic representation of Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation is depicted, illustrating the electromagnetic wavefront associated with the phenomenon for which Frank shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics. The upper rim legend reads И.М. ФРАНК (I.M. Frank) in Cyrillic, while the lower rim carries the dates 1908–1990 denoting the subject's birth and death years. |
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| Mint | (СПМД) Saint Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd, Russia (1724-date) |
| Mintage | 2008 СПМД - Proof - 5,000 |
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