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| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 2011 ММД - Proof; Moscow Mint - 1,500 |
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Issued as part of Russia's ongoing Red Book series, which has documented endangered species on bullion and collector coinage since the early 1990s, this piece marks a concerted effort by the Bank of Russia to spotlight the Amur leopard's cousin — the Caucasian subspecies whose wild population had collapsed to perhaps fewer than a dozen individuals in Russia by the time of minting. Conservation pressure from WWF Russia and the Russian Geographical Society was directly influencing state-level wildlife policy in this period, and the coin series ran parallel to captive breeding programs operating out of Sochi.