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Russian Empire, Sestroretsk Rouble (1771)

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Original – Russian Empire, Catherine the Great, Sestroretsk Rouble (1771). This one-rouble coin was designed to be kept in the treasury as metallic backing for the country’s paper rouble issue. Solid copper, weighing just over 1.022 kg (2.25 lb), the Sestroretsk rouble has a diameter of 77 millimetres (3+3⁄100 in) and is 26 millimetres (1+1⁄50 in) thick. For size perspective, it is essentially the same (+1mm) as a standard hockey puck.

Reason

High quality image, high EV, good condition, extremely rare, reportedly the largest copper coin ever issued.

Articles in which this image appears

Russian ruble, and newly added to Russian Empire

FP category for this image

Currency

Creator

Russian Empire (coin)
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History.

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 01:46, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support Little plates for Russian mice; how civilized! Belle (talk) 07:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support - If the plate weighs more than the mice. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:06, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:48, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support – For EV – very unusual type of 'coinage,' if that's the word for it. Never heard of copper backing for paper currency. Sca (talk) 14:23, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• First paragraph in the history section refers to it, no? Info came to me via the Smithsonian. I'll try to find some refs...--Godot13 (talk) 02:36, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

• Support -- Nice one -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 17:07, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Russia 1771 Sestroretsk Rouble.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:47, 13 September 2015 (UTC)