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3 Roubles Alexander the Nevsky
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Thickness | 3.30 mm |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed view of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour (Спасо-Преображенский Собор) in Pereslavl-Zalessky, rendered with the ancient township visible in the background. The architectural scene is executed in high relief with careful attention to the medieval character of the structure. Along the upper rim arc two inscriptions: «1000-ЛЕТИЕ РОССИИ» (Millennium of Russia) and «АЛЕКСАНДР НЕВСКИЙ» (Alexander Nevsky), separated by a star ornament, with «ПЕРЕСЛАВЛЬ-ЗАЛЕССКИЙ» (Pereslavl-Zalessky) also inscribed above. The lower rim bears the legend «СПАСО-ПРЕОБРАЖЕНСКИЙ СОБОР» (Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour) in Cyrillic characters. |
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This coin belongs to Russia's long-running commemorative series honoring medieval princes and Orthodox saints, issued in the years immediately following Soviet collapse when the Bank of Russia was aggressively using precious-metal coinage both to generate hard currency and to reassert pre-revolutionary national identity. Alexander Nevsky's canonization by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547 came roughly three centuries after his death at Gorodets in 1263, and Soviet authorities later rehabilitated him as a secular hero — Stalin personally approved the 1938 Eisenstein film during a period of acute German threat.