100 Ruble Gold Coin 1999 Pushkin Proof PR70DCAM

200. Anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin

What makes this specimen very special is that it is certified by PCGS with the PR70DCAM (Cameo) grade. It is the only expenditure in the world that has reached this level! Since the highest level is 70, there will also never be a better rated edition on PCGS. In addition, the coin was protected by PCGS through the “NFC anti-counterfeiting technology”.

Certificate Exam.

Details of the gold coin:

Face value: 100 rubles
Minting quality: Proof
Fineness: 900/1000
Fine weight: 15,55g
Diameter: 30mm (±0.25)
Thickness: 1.70mm (±0.20)
Circulation: 1000
Mintage: Moscow Mint (MMD)
Edge: 240 corrugations

Front

In the center – the emblem of the Bank of Russia (double-headed eagle of I. Bilibin, below the semicircular inscription “Bank of Russia”), framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the circle: above – “Sto Rublej”= “Hundred Rubles”, below – “1999”, left – description of the precious metal and its fineness, right – fineness and the mint mark (MMD).

Back

On the left is a portrait of Alexander Pushkin; on the right and below are the fairy-tale characters from the poem Ruslan and Lyudmila (“By the Lukomorye Oak…”, “the Learned Cat”, Ruslan and the “Living” Head); “the Rooster from the High Spoke” from the Fairy Tale of the Golden Rooster; in the lower part – the Old Man and the Fish in the Net from the Fairy Tale of the Fish and the Fish. Below – the inscription: “ALEXANDER PUSHKIN” and the year “1799” “1837”.

History

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (May 26, 1799, Moscow – January 29, 1837, St. Petersburg) was a Russian poet, dramatist and prose writer who created the foundations of Russian realism, literary critic and theorist, historian, journalist and one of the most influential figures in the literature of the first third of the 19th century. A.S. Pushkin lived in a time when oral fairy tales flourished. With his interest in folk art, he created a new literary genre: the fairy tale poem, in which there are fantastic heroes and mermaids, menacing kings and sorcerers, devils and Baba Yaga. Good is at the center of the fairy-tale beauty and always triumphs over evil.