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3 Roubles Snow Leopard
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 34.88 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a naturalistic high-relief depiction of a snow leopard (Panthera uncia) reclining upon a rocky outcrop, its distinctive spotted coat rendered with exceptional sculptural detail and its thick, ringed tail curling to the right. The background field, in mirror proof finish, evokes a mountain landscape with jagged rocky peaks at left and right and a bird in flight upper right, evoking the animal's high-altitude Central Asian habitat. The Cyrillic legend СОХРАНИМ arcs along the upper periphery, and НАШ МИР appears along the lower register, together reading СОХРАНИМ НАШ МИР (Protect Our World), the motto of the conservation series. |
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Part of Russia's ongoing wildlife conservation series, this issue coincides with growing international concern over snow leopard populations in the Altai and Sayan mountain ranges — regions where the species had been pushed to the edge of viable numbers by Soviet-era hunting pressure and habitat fragmentation. The Bank of Russia had been issuing collector silver under this conservation umbrella since the early 1990s, with each release tied loosely to domestic environmental policy signaling rather than any binding protection legislation.
Mintage figures for this type were kept low, consistent with the series format of limited collector runs distributed primarily through Sberbank branches and specialist dealers.