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Medal - Year of the Snake 2025
| Location | Russian Federation (1991-date) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Composition | Nickel silver |
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| Obverse description | The field is bisected vertically into two contrasting halves: the left half features a textured ground with Chinese lanterns hanging from a blossoming branch in relief, and a framed Chinese character for 'snake' (蛇) in the lower left. The right half has a dark background with a holographic iridescent coiled snake in relief at centre, surrounded by a Greek-key ornamental border, with the Cyrillic legend arcing around the right periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОД ЗМЕИ 2025 (Translation: YEAR OF THE SNAKE 2025) |
| Reverse description | The field is bisected diagonally into contrasting light and dark halves, with the Cyrillic greeting legend rendered in large stylised characters that fill the entire field, arranged to read as a continuous phrase. A Greek-key ornamental border runs around the entire rim, and the mint mark appears in small relief at the lower right of the field. |
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