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Token - Renaming Leningrad to St. Petersburg Catherine II
| Location | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter facing bust of Empress Catherine II in high relief, wearing an elaborate lace-trimmed gown and a laurel wreath in her powdered hair, set against a mirror field. To the lower left, a detailed relief depiction of a neoclassical building, likely the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, flanked by trees. A curved legend in Cyrillic and Latin runs along the upper rim. |
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| Reverse description | The state emblem of the USSR occupies the entire field, depicting a globe with rays of sunlight below, flanked by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon, and surmounted by a five-pointed star. The legend СССР appears along the lower rim in Cyrillic. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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