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50 Roubles N. V. Gogol
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#1175, CBR#5216-0069, Schön#1112 |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic (cursive) |
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| Mintage | 2009 СПМД - Proof - 1,500 |
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Issued to mark the 200th anniversary of Gogol's birth, this piece appeared during a period when the Bank of Russia was producing commemorative gold at a pace that significantly outstripped collector demand — a pattern that has kept secondary-market premiums on many such issues modest despite the fine gold content. Gogol himself died in Moscow in 1852 under circumstances that remain disputed: a combination of prolonged fasting, possible misdiagnosis, and aggressive medical treatment, with some historians suspecting typhoid and others a psychiatric collapse following his burning of the second volume of *Dead Souls*.