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25 Roubles The Sleeping Beauty

Issuer Bank of Russia
Year 1995
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse description At center, the double-headed eagle emblem of the Bank of Russia after the design of Ivan Bilibin, rendered in the field without a shield. Below the eagle, metallic inscriptions denote the metal symbol (Pd), fineness (999), the Leningrad Mint trademark (ЛМД), and the fine metal content (31.1 g). A raised legend along the upper rim within a beaded border reads «25 РУБЛЕЙ 1995 г.» (25 ROUBLES 1995), while the lower rim carries the inscription «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA).
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Mintage 1995 ЛМД - Proof - 1,500
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Part of Russia's four-coin palladium series depicting scenes from classic Russian fairy tales, this 1995 issue completed a run that began in 1993. The series was among the first in the world to use palladium as a primary bullion and collector medium, a deliberate move by the Bank of Russia during a period when domestic palladium production from the Norilsk mines was among the highest on earth and the metal needed new commercial channels.

Mintages across the fairy tale palladium series were extremely low — typically under 2,000 pieces — making survivorship in pristine condition the norm rather than the exception, since most went directly into collections.

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