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| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Obverse description | The polished mirror field bears a raised relief of the State Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation centered on the disc. A semicircular legend reading РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ curves along the upper rim. Below the arms, the metal designation and fineness (Au 999) appear to the left, with the fine metal content (7.78) and the Saint Petersburg Mint mark (СПМД) to the right. The denomination БАНК РОССИИ 50 РУБЛЕЙ and the date 2014 г. are inscribed in two lines at the base of the design. |
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| Edge | Reeded (134 corrugations) |
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Issued to mark the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics — the most expensive Games in history at an estimated $51 billion, roughly five times the original budget — this coin belongs to a broader Russian commemorative program that flooded the collector market in the lead-up to the event. The Bank of Russia released dozens of Olympic-themed issues across multiple metals and denominations, diluting individual scarcity considerably.
Sochi was the first Winter Olympics hosted by Russia since the Soviet-era 1980 Moscow Summer Games, and figure skating remained the discipline most closely tied to Russian national prestige throughout that period.