25 Roubles Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf

Part of the Bank of Russia's long-running folklore series, this issue draws on the Ivan Tsarevich tale as recorded in Alexander Afanasyev's landmark 1855–1863 collection of Russian fairy tales — the same anthology that inspired Stravinsky and generations of illustrators. The copper-nickel commemorative program has run for decades, producing coins that circulate legally but rarely do, absorbed immediately by collectors and gift buyers.

Mintage figures for this type typically run into the hundreds of thousands, keeping secondary market premiums modest.