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5 Roubles - Elizabeth Pattern, Novodel
| Issuer | St. Petersburg Mint |
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| Year | 1755 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | Draped and mantled bust of Empress Elizabeth I (Elizaveta Petrovna) facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and surmounted by an imperial crown. The effigy is rendered in high relief in the classicising Baroque court style characteristic of mid-18th-century Russian coinage. The mintmark СПБ (St. Petersburg Mint) appears in the lower field beneath the truncation. The circumferential legend in Cyrillic script reads across the obverse field. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Novodels of this type were produced at St. Petersburg in the late 18th and 19th centuries to supply the growing European collector market — demand the Imperial Mint met deliberately, manufacturing "restrike" patterns of earlier issues with whatever dies remained or could be re-engraved. The original 1755 pattern itself was never approved for circulation; Elizabeth's five-rouble coinage in gold was already established, and this denomination in this format appears to have been an exploratory strike for court review.
Diakov's R4 rarity rating reflects genuine scarcity even among novodels. The Uzdenikov novodel designation confirms its non-contemporary manufacture.