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Poltina - Ekaterina I portrait to the left
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1726 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | МОНЕТА ∙ НОВАЯ ∙ ЦЕНА ∙ ПОЛТIНА · 1726 (Translation: Coin new price poltina) |
| Edge | Lettered |
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Catherine I's poltina of 1726 occupies an awkward moment in Russian monetary history. Peter the Great had died the previous year, leaving a monetary system still mid-reform and a court consumed by succession politics — Catherine, a Lithuanian-born former servant with no administrative training, ruled effectively through the Supreme Privy Council. The leftward-facing portrait on this type was abandoned after a single year; 1727 issues reverted to a rightward orientation, making the left-portrait variety a one-year anomaly tied to an unstable early reign.