Gold Tchervonets
Obverse
in the centre the relief image of the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation, over it along the rim the semicircular inscription ‘РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ’ (RUSSIAN FEDERATION), framed on both sides by doubled rhombuses, below under the coat of arms to the left indications of the precious metal and its fineness, to the right the fine metal content and the mint trade mark, at the bottom in the centre, in two lines, the inscription ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA), the denomination of the coin ‘10 РУБЛЕЙ’ (10 RUBLES).
Reverse
a peasant–sower at work in the centre; in the background, there are rays of the rising sun on the left, smoking plant chimneys on the right, a field and a plough in the centre; the inscription ‘ОДИН ЧЕРВОНЕЦ’ (ONE TCHERVONETS) is at the top, and the dates ‘1923’ and ‘2023’ are at the bottom.
Authors
Designers: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), A.D. Schablykin (reverse).
Sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse), A.D. Schablykin (reverse).
Mint: Moscow and Saint Petersburg Mints (ММД, СПМД).
Edge: 134 corrugations.
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In October 1921, the RSFSR founded the State Bank that was to ‘establish proper money circulation’. Pursuant to the related law, dated 11 October 1922, the State Bank was entitled to issue a strong currency partially backed by gold. Thus, the State Bank put into circulation its first Tchervonets banknotes.
However, the State Bank issued not only banknotes. In 1923, the Petrograd Mint started to mint Gold Tchervonets coins. By their parameters, they replicated the 10-ruble coin of tsarist Russia and were designed by mint master Anton Vasyutinsky based on a sketch for one of the agricultural shows held before the revolution. The coin depicts a peasant–sower standing against the background of smoking plant chimneys, a plough, and the rising sun. In 1923, the State Bank issued slightly more than 2.7 million Gold Tchervonets coins.
Fifty-two years later, the State Bank began to use the design with the sower again. In 1975, the State Bank issued 250,000 Gold Tchervonets coins and, then until 1982, the annual issue of such coins reached one million.
Today, the gold ‘sower’ is one of the investment coins of the Bank of Russia.
Source: https://museum.cbr.ru/