3 Roubles Peter the Great

This piece belongs to the long-running Bank of Russia commemorative program marking the 350th anniversary of Peter I's birth, issued in 2022 — exactly 350 years after 1672. Peter's monetary reforms of the early 1700s are directly relevant here: he abolished the old wire-cut kopek system and introduced machine-struck round coinage on Western European standards, effectively creating the framework within which modern Russian numismatics begins.