Russia 100 Roubles, 1999

100 Roubles from Russia. Issued in 1999. Struck in Gold (.900). Measures 30 mm and weighs 17.45 g.

Obverse

In the center — the Emblem of the Bank of Russia (the two headed eagle designed by I.Bilibin, lower — the semicircular inscription — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA) framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «СТО РУБЛЕЙ» (HUNDRED ROUBLES), at the bottom —«1999», the letters to the left indicate the metal sign and the fineness, to the right — the fine metal content and the mint trade mark. (One Hundred Roubles
Bank of Russia
MMD)

Reverse

To the left — the portrait of A.S.Pushkin, to the right and under it — fairy tale personages of the poem «Ruslan and Ludmila» («an oak on the curved seashore ..», «a trained cat», Ruslan and «the living »head), «the cockerel from a high finial »from the tale «About the Golden Cockerel», lower — an old man with a fish in the seine from the tale «About the Fisherman and the Fish». The inscription at the bottom — «АЛЕКСАНДР ПУШКИН» (ALEXANDR PUSHKIN) and the dates «1799» «1837». (Alexander Pushkin)

Edge

240 corrugations