RUSSIA, Nicholas II, 1 Rouble 1897 АГ, VF-XF

Nicholas II (1894-1917)

RUSSIA, Nicholas II, 1 Rouble 1897 АГ, VF-XF

Name: RUSSIA, Nicholas II, 1 Rouble 1897 АГ, VF-XF
SKU: G456
Price: 99 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Obverse: Portrait of the Emperor Nicholas II, legend around

Lettering (Russian): Б.М.НИКОЛАЙ II ИМПЕРАТОРЪ И САМОДЕРЖЕЦЪ ВСЕРОСС.

Translation: By the grace of God Nicholas II Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia

Reverse: Double-headed eagle with a crown above. Denomination; date.

Lettering (Russian): РУБЛЬ 1897 Г.

Translation: Rouble 1897 year

Edge (text in Russian): ЧИСТАГО СЕРЕБРА 4 ЗОЛОТНИКА 21 ДОЛЯ (А.Г)

Translation: Pure Silver 4 zolotniks 21 dolyas (parts) (A.G)

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Guaranteed genuine.

€ 99

In stock

Country	Russia
Ruler	Nicholas II (1894-1917)
Face Value	1 Rouble
Year of issue	1897
Metal	Silver
Fineness	900
Catalogue #	KM# 59.3; Bitkin 41; Conros 82/6
Weight, g.	19,81
Diameter, mm.	33,68
Our code	G456
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	-

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History

In January 1897, Nicholas II convened a special session of the State Council in St. Petersburg and personally presided over one of the most consequential decisions of his reign: Russia would abandon the silver standard and join the gold-backed monetary system of the modern world. The reform had been years in the making, orchestrated by the formidable Finance Minister Sergey Witte – a railroad man turned economic visionary who understood that Russia’s future as a great industrial power depended on a currency the world could trust.

The silver ruble of 1897 was born in this moment of transformation. It was, in a sense, the last of its kind – silver’s farewell as the backbone of Russian monetary life. Under the new system, gold became the standard, and the silver ruble was relegated to subsidiary currency, its role quietly diminished even as its weight and purity remained unchanged. The initials АГ on the coin’s edge identify the mint official Apollon Grashof, whose mark appears on some of the most historically charged Russian coinage of the era.

On the obverse, the profile of Nicholas II – twenty-nine years old in 1897, three years into a reign he had never wanted and felt wholly unprepared for. He had wept, it is said, when his father Alexander III died and the burden of empire fell to him. And yet his signature on Witte’s reform helped stabilize the ruble, attract foreign capital, and fuel an industrial expansion that transformed Russia’s economy in the years that followed. For seventeen years – until the guns of August 1914 forced Russia off the gold standard and paper money flooded in to pay for war – the ruble was one of the most stable and respected currencies in the world.

This coin belongs to that brief golden age. It passed through the hands of a vast empire on the cusp of modernity, still unaware of everything that was coming.