Adormirea Maicii Domnului — the Dormition of the Mother of God — is one of the most important feast days in Orthodox Christianity, observed on August 15th and holding particular cultural weight in Moldova, where Eastern Orthodox practice shapes the national calendar in ways that have no real parallel in Western Europe. Moldova's commemorative silver program has consistently leaned on religious subjects, reflecting both popular sentiment and the post-Soviet reassertion of Orthodox identity that accelerated sharply after 1991.
KM#128 was struck to .999 fineness, finer than the .925 standard common to most European commemoratives of the period.
Adormirea Maicii Domnului — the Dormition of the Mother of God — is one of the most important feast days in Orthodox Christianity, observed on August 15th and holding particular cultural weight in Moldova, where Eastern Orthodox practice shapes the national calendar in ways that have no real parallel in Western Europe. Moldova's commemorative silver program has consistently leaned on religious subjects, reflecting both popular sentiment and the post-Soviet reassertion of Orthodox identity that accelerated sharply after 1991.
KM#128 was struck to .999 fineness, finer than the .925 standard common to most European commemoratives of the period.