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Rouble - Catherine I
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1726-1727 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1700-1917) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle displayed with wings spread, each head surmounted by a small crown and the whole surmounted by a large imperial crown above; the eagle holds a sceptre in its right talon and an orb in its left. The date 1726 appears in the upper field to the left of the central crown, and the Cyrillic legend stating the denomination and type of coin encircles the design along the border, reading clockwise. |
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Catherine I ruled for just twenty-seven months following Peter the Great's death in January 1725, and the rouble issues of her brief reign were produced under genuinely chaotic conditions at the Moscow and St. Petersburg mints. She had no formal claim to succession beyond Peter's unratified decree — itself a document of contested authenticity — and the court factions that propped up her reign were already maneuvering against each other before the dies were cut.
The .728 fineness reflects a deliberate debasement from the Petrine standard, pushed through by Menshikov's administration to cover mounting state debts. KM#177.1 distinguishes the Moscow mint variety; St. Petersburg struck its own parallel issue under different die sinkers, and the two are separated primarily by mintmark placement.