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25 Roubles Velikiy Novgorod and its Suburbs

Issuer Bank of Russia
Year 2009
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Currency Rouble (1998-date)
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Obverse script Cyrillic, Latin
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Edge Reeded (252 corrugations)
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Issued as part of Russia's long-running "Ancient Towns of Russia" commemorative program, this piece celebrates Novgorod's role as one of the oldest and most politically distinct cities in medieval Rus — a merchant republic governed by a veche assembly at a time when most of the continent was organized around hereditary autocracy. The city's unusual civic structure, and its dominance of Baltic trade routes through the Hanseatic network, made it an outlier that Moscow eventually absorbed by force in 1478 under Ivan III.

The 169-gram format places this among the larger silver issues in the Bank of Russia's commemorative output for the series.

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