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5 Roubles - Elizabeth СПБ
| Issuer | Imperial Russian Mint |
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| Year | 1755-1759 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Diagonal reeding |
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Elizabeth's gold coinage of the 1750s was produced at the St. Petersburg Mint during a period when Russia was entering the Seven Years' War, and imperial expenditure on the military was reshaping the mint's output priorities. The SPB mintmark distinguishes these from Moscow-struck pieces, though St. Petersburg had by this decade become the dominant facility for gold.
The .917 fineness was consistent with the zolotnik standard codified under Peter I and maintained through Elizabeth's reign without significant debasement — unusual given the fiscal pressures of the period.