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250 Roubles Battleship Novorossiysk
| Issuer | Arctic Territories |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Novorossiysk was a former Italian battleship — the Giulio Cesare — transferred to the Soviet Union as war reparations in 1949. She sank at anchor in Sevastopol Bay in October 1955 under circumstances never fully explained: a massive explosion tore through her hull before dawn, killing over 600 sailors. Soviet authorities classified all details for decades, and competing theories — a rogue mine, sabotage by Italian frogmen, internal negligence — remain unresolved.
The "Arctic Territories" issuer designation reflects a class of privately arranged numismatic issues rather than a recognized sovereign authority.