fwo_924537 - RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I 1 Kopeck 1853 Ekaterinbourg
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Type : 1 Kopeck
Date: 1853
Mint name / Town : Ekaterinbourg
Quantity minted : 21328000
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : monogramme couronné de Nicolas Ier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN CYRILLIQUE) / 1853 / E.M..
Reverse description : couronne.
Reverse translation : (Kopeck - 1853).
Historical background
RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I
(1/12/1825-2/03/1855)
Nicholas I (7/07/1796-2/03/1855), second son of Paul I, is the brother of Alexander I and Grand Duke Constantin. On the death of his brother Alexander I, on December 1, 1825, and after the renunciation of his brother Constantine, he became Tsar of all the Russias and began by repressing the liberal movement of the Decembrists and then the uprising in Poland in 1831. After favoring the liberation of Greece, he poses as a defender of the Slavs and opposes the Turks. He finds on his way the English and the French. He died before the defeat of the Crimean War.
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