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3 Roubles The Nevyansk Inclined Tower
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1998-date) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the double-headed eagle emblem of the Bank of Russia, depicted with wings lowered, serves as the primary device within a beaded inner circle. The curved Cyrillic legend «БАНК РОССИИ» (Bank of Russia) arcs beneath the eagle. Along the outer rim, the denomination «ТРИ РУБЛЯ» (Three Roubles) appears above, while the lower arc carries, from left to right, the precious metal designation and fineness (Ag 925), the year of issue «2007 г.», the fine metal content (31.1 g), and the Saint Petersburg Mint monogram (СПМД). |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Nevyansk Tower was built in the early eighteenth century under the Demidov family, the industrialist dynasty that effectively ran the Ural mining region as a private empire under Peter the Great's patronage. The tower's pronounced lean — visible from construction, not subsidence — has never been satisfactorily explained. One persistent theory holds that the lower floors were deliberately flooded by the Demidovs to conceal an illegal silver-smelting operation, the rising water warping the foundation before the structure was complete.
This coin belongs to Russia's long-running architectural monuments series. The Nevyansk Tower was added to Russia's federal list of protected heritage sites in 1960.