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| Issuer | Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Rouble |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the coat of arms of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, depicting a rider on horseback bearing a flag, enclosed within an inner circle. A decorative ornamental border runs along the upper rim. The bilingual legend encircles the design along the outer border, reading in Cyrillic script in both Russian and Sakha (Yakut) languages. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sakha (Yakutia) has no legal authority to issue currency — monetary policy in the Russian Federation is exclusively a federal prerogative under the Central Bank of Russia. These pieces are fantasy issues, produced outside any governmental mandate and with no circulation purpose. Sakha never operated a mint, and no "kopek" denomination was ever sanctioned by the republic's authorities.
Collector interest exists purely as a curiosity of post-Soviet regionalism, a period when dozens of Russian federal subjects flirted with symbolic assertions of autonomy.