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25 Kopecks - Nicholas II Pattern
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Pn164, Bit#351 |
| Obverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the centre of the field, with wings spread and each head crowned, supporting an orb and sceptre. A central shield bearing the arms of Moscow is superimposed on the eagle's breast, surrounded by the armorial shields of the Russian imperial territories. The mint engravers' initials 'Э Б' appear in the lower field flanking the eagle's tail feathers, with the date 1911 inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Pattern coinage of this type was struck in the years before World War I as the Russian Ministry of Finance explored replacing silver in subsidiary coinage with cheaper base metals. Nickel had already proven practical in Western European monetary systems, and pressure to reduce silver expenditure on low-denomination coins was real. The 1911 nickel patterns were never adopted — silver remained the standard for the 25 kopeck denomination until the collapse of the imperial monetary system entirely.
Bit#351 places this among a small, documented group of official Ministry-sanctioned trials. Mintage figures for these pattern strikes are typically in the single or low double digits.