Russia 1 (huge copper) rouble 1771 

• 1771 
• KM# NA110 
• Russia 
• 1 ruble 

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Coins

Russia 1 (huge copper) rouble 1771

1771

Birds, Eagles, Fauna (Animals)

1020

77

26

1771

1 Ruble

E II KATO (Catherine II of Russia)

KM# NA110

On 16 February 1770, Empress Katherine II issued a decree "On the making of the new copper coins," according to which she should have more weight (eight hundred eighty-eight grams) and size (thirty-five millimeters in height and seventy-six millimeters in diameter). In addition was approved drawing new coins - the giants, quite concise - emblem, a monogram of the Empress and a bit of the inscription of the mint, on which this instance is made. By the decree of 11 March 1770 "About cooking at the Sestroretsk plants copper rubles at the Highest approved drawings" Senate turns to the General Deltaglider (the chief of army artillery) count Grigory Orlov, which was the office of the Chief of Artillery and Fortification, to inquire about opportunities at the Sestroretsk arms factories to design a machine for the manufacture of new copper ruble coins with so much weight, then be done with the help of this machine, two samples of coins and send them to the Senate for consideration. Five days later, count Orlov consents to the production of experiments on the production of copper rouble coins at the Sestroretsk plants. Experimental work in the manufacture of machines and prototypes of coins lasted 9 months. President Berg-Collegium (Mining Department) and Coin Department count Musin-Pushkin December 20, 1770; reported to the Senate on the results of manufacturing rouble copper coins and provided four samples of coins. In his report, he noted that, as the copper was of poor quality, two samples were made defective with cracks. Nearly three years conducted the practical work. They showed that the coin costs the state too expensive, and its production eventually turns out to be unprofitable. Authentic "Sestroretsk" RUB with the date 1770, which probably are the samples submitted to the Senate in December of the same year, one is in the United States at the Smithsonian, another is in the numismatic Department of the State Hermitage. More common and well-known instances of "Sestroretsk" RUB with the date 1771.