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Ruble - Anna
| Issuer | Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1739-1740 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped and crowned bust of Empress Anna I facing right, wearing an imperial crown adorned with a cross and pearls, her hair dressed in an elaborate coiffure with loose curls falling to the shoulder, and her shoulders draped in an ermine-trimmed imperial mantle. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the garments and regalia. A Cyrillic legend encircles the portrait within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | A large crowned Imperial Russian double-headed eagle displayed in the center of the field, with spread wings, each head facing outward and surmounted by a separate crown, both topped by a central imperial crown. The eagle's breast bears a shield depicting the mounted figure of St. George slaying the dragon. The right talon holds a scepter and the left an orb. The date 1740 appears above the eagle, and the denomination legend is arranged around the periphery in Cyrillic characters within a beaded border. |
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Anna Ivanovna's ruble coinage of 1739–40 came at the tail end of a reign dominated by her favorite, Ernst Johann von Biron, whose influence over Russian court finances was so complete that contemporaries referred to the period simply as the Bironovshchina. The Moscow and St. Petersburg mints both struck this type, and attribution between the two facilities is not always straightforward without careful die study.
Anna died in October 1740, making the 1740-dated pieces among the last struck under her authority before the succession crisis that briefly installed the infant Ivan VI.