The obverse of the coin ‘Gold Tchervonets’ features a relief image of the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation and the inscriptions ‘РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ’ (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) and ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA), the coin denomination ‘50 РУБЛЕЙ’ (50 ROUBLES), the chemical symbol of the metal according to Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Elements, fineness, the mint trademark, and fine metal content.
Obverse script
Cyrillic, Latin
Obverse lettering
РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ
Au 999 7,78
СПМД
БАНК РОССИИ
50 РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Russian Federation SPMD Bank of Russia Roubles)
Reverse description
The reverse of the coin features relief images of a peasant—sower at work in the centre; rays of the rising sun on the left, smoking plant chimneys on the right, and a field and a plough in the centre in the background; the relief inscriptions at the top ‘ОДИН ЧЕРВОНЕЦ’ (ONE TCHERVONETS) around the circumference and ‘100 ЛЕТ’ (100 YEARS) on the left in two lines, and the year ‘1923’ on the left around the lower circumference.
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
ОДИН ЧЕРВОНЕЦ
100 ЛЕТ
1923 (Translation: ONE TCHERVONETS YEARS)
Edge
Reeded
Mint
(СПМД) Saint Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd, Russia (1724-date)