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2 Roubles N.V. Gogol
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 2 Roubles (2 RUR) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic (cursive) |
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This coin is part of a series the Bank of Russia launched in the early 1990s honoring figures of Russian literature and culture — one of the few ambitious numismatic programs to survive the economic chaos of the post-Soviet transition. Gogol was born in Ukraine in 1809 and wrote in Russian, a biographical fact that generated nationalist friction long before it became the political flashpoint it is today.
The .500 fineness reflects hard compromises in Russian silver coinage of that period, when precious metal procurement for commemorative issues was constrained by the broader collapse of state industry.