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5 Pyadey Bering Vitus Jonassen
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle, crowned, with a sceptre in the right talon and an orb in the left, displayed in fine detail with elaborate plumage and heraldic shield on the breast. The Cyrillic legend ПЕРВОПРОХОДЦЫ arcs along the upper periphery and ЗЕМЛИ РУССКОЙ along the lower periphery, separated by small ornamental stops. Below the eagle, the denomination ПЯТЬ ПЯДЕЙ is inscribed in two lines, followed by the date 2023 in the lower field. The reverse is framed by a beaded inner border. |
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| Mint | Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор), Russian Federation |
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Vitus Jonassen Bering, the Danish-born navigator who served the Russian Imperial Navy, died in December 1741 shipwrecked on the uninhabited island that now bears his name — stranded during the return leg of the Second Kamchatka Expedition after successfully sighting the Alaskan coast. His remains were recovered and identified by forensic archaeologists only in 1991.