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50 Roubles Virgo
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A female figure — personifying the zodiac sign Virgo — is depicted against a starry background, rendered in high relief with fine detail. To the right of the central figure, the symbol of the Virgo constellation (♍) is prominently displayed. The overall composition evokes the celestial and mythological character of the zodiac series, with the star field occupying the surrounding field. The design is executed in a refined artistic style consistent with the Bank of Russia's commemorative zodiac coin series. |
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| Mint | (СПМД) Saint Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd, Russia (1724-date) |
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Part of the Bank of Russia's ongoing zodiac series, this issue belongs to a run of twelve gold coins tied to the astrological calendar — a format the CBR has returned to across multiple production cycles. The series was aimed squarely at the collector and gift market rather than circulation, and mintages were kept deliberately low to sustain secondary market demand.
The .999 fineness places it among Russia's purer gold issues of the period, a specification the CBR adopted consistently for its commemorative bullion-adjacent coins after the monetary reforms of 1998 stabilized the rouble sufficiently to support a domestic collector coin program.