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Imperial Frigate Admiral Essen; proof
| Issuer | St. Petersburg Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | СТОРОЖЕВОЙ КОРАБЛЬ "АДМИРАЛ ЭССЕН" ВО ИМЯ РОССИИ, ВО СЛАВУ РОССИИ |
| Reverse description | Central field displays a boldly rendered Andreevsky flag (the diagonal blue cross on white ground, ensign of the Russian Navy) on a staff, flying to the right in high relief against a mirror-polished background. Two anchor emblems flank the design at the mid-rim positions. The series title ЛЕГЕНДЫ РОССИЙСКОГО ФЛОТА ("Legends of the Russian Fleet") arcs along the upper rim in Cyrillic. The denomination ИМПЕРИАЛ and the date 2017 are inscribed in the lower field, with the St. Petersburg Mint mark СПМД visible in the lower left field. |
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Admiral Essen was a Russian Imperial Navy frigate launched in 1900 and named after Nikolai Ottovich von Essen, the Baltic Fleet commander who modernized Russian naval doctrine before dying of pneumonia in 1915 — weeks before he could execute plans that might have fundamentally altered Baltic operations in the First World War. The St. Petersburg Mint has issued a long-running series of proof strikes on nickel brass celebrating historic Russian warships, of which this is one entry.
Proof strikes on base-metal flans at this size tend to develop cameo contrast inconsistently. Worth examining the fields closely under raking light.