fwo_1163234 - RUSSIA - NICHOLAS I Poltina 1848 Saint-Petersbourg
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Type : Poltina
Date: 1848
Mint name / Town : Saint-Petersbourg
Quantity minted : 1560001
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 868 ‰
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,06 g.
Edge : incuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE).
Obverse description : Aigle bicéphale couronné timbré d'un écu aux armes de Moscou entouré du collier de l'ordre de Saint-André et des écussons de Kazan, Astrakan et Sibérie sur l'aile gauche et de Pologne, de Tauride et de Finlande sur l'aile droite.
Obverse translation : (Argent pur 2 zolotniks 10 1/2 dolas).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE CYRILLIQUE) / 1848.
Reverse description : Dans une couronne formée d'une branche d'olivier et d'une branche de chêne surmontée d'une petite couronne.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie poltina).
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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