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50 Roubles The Nutcracker
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles (50 RUR) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the double-headed eagle after the design of artist Ivan Bilibin, rendered in the heraldic style revived for post-Soviet Russian coinage, positioned centrally in the field. The denomination legend «50 РУБЛЕЙ 1996 г.» is inscribed along the upper rim, while «БАНК РОССИИ» appears along the lower rim. Below the eagle, a series of inscriptions in the field denotes the metal designation, fineness, mint mark, and fine gold content: «Au 999 ММД 7,78». |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a scene from Tchaikovsky's ballet «The Nutcracker», showing the young heroine Masha and the mysterious Drosselmeyer with the broken Nutcracker, rendered in fine relief with detailed figural composition. The inscription «ЩЕЛКУНЧИК» is engraved along the upper rim in Cyrillic characters, identifying the subject of the ballet series. The design is executed in a painterly, narrative style characteristic of Russian commemorative gold coinage of the 1990s. |
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