Russia, Tsar Alexander II, 5 kopecks, 1876 SPB
Also known as: Rusland, tsaar Alexander II, 5 kopeken, 1876 SPB
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1876
Copper coin. Obverse: double-headed crowned eagle with spread wings and with small coats of arms on its wings and on its breast a large coat of arms encircled by an order of knighthood, and in its talons a sceptre and a crowned orb. Above the eagle a crown with ribbon. Value indication in legend below. Reverse: between two tied branches, value indication in two lines. Below it, in Cyrillic, the letters S, P and B [=Saint Petersburg]. Year at the top in legend. Milled edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-3663A; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 3.2 cm x weight 15.38 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- copper (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 3.2 cm x weight 15.38 g
Design
- Obverse
- double-headed crowned eagle with spread wings and with small coats of arms on its wings and on its breast a large coat of arms encircled by an order of knighthood, and in its talons a sceptre and a crowned orb. Above the eagle a crown with ribbon. Value indication in legend below.
- Reverse
- between two tied branches, value indication in two lines. Below it, in Cyrillic, the letters S, P and B [=Saint Petersburg]. Year at the top in legend. Milled edge.
Identification
- Original title
- Rusland, tsaar Alexander II, 5 kopeken, 1876 SPB
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-1-3663A
- Museum classification
- coin
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