25 Roubles The Savings-Affairs in Russia, Russia

To the left a portrait of Nicolai I in an oval, lower the facsimile signature of the Emperor, to the right a scroll with inscriptions in six lines: (DECREE ABOUT FOUNDING THE SAVINGS-BANKS), 30 1841 (OCTOBER 30, 1841). At the top the buildings of the State Savings-Banks and the St. Petersburg Loan Treasury, above it the inscription on a ribbon: - (SAINT PETERSBURG), at the bottom the Emblem of Russian savings-banks (a hive with flying bees around it, and the abundance horn filled with coins), the inscription along the rim: (THE SAVINGS-AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA).

Igor Sergeevich Komshilov

Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov

In the centre — the Emblem of the Bank of Russia [the two-headed eagle with wings down, lower — the semicircular inscription — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA)] framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ» (TWENTY FIVE ROUBLES), at the bottom — the year of issue «2001», the letters to the left indicate the metal sign and the fineness, to the right — the fine metal content and the mint trade mark.

Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov

Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov

252 corrugations