Specifications
- Denomination
- 1 rouble
- Series
- Nicholas II coronation commemorative
- Years of issue
- 1896
- Composition
- 90% Silver, 10% Copper
- Weight
- 19.996 g
- Diameter
- 34 mm
- KM
- Y-60
- Mintage
- 191000
- Key mintages
- 191,000 (Heritage). Disregard the stray 12,540,000 figure in Heritage metadata — it belongs to the regular 1896 rouble.
Melt value: $37.29
Nicholas II coronation commemorative rouble · St. Petersburg · 191,000 struck for the May 1896 coronation.
History
- Struck at St. Petersburg to commemorate the coronation of Nicholas II in May 1896 (Heritage Auctions, accessed 2026-09-16).
- Cataloged as KM Y-60 and Bitkin 322 (Heritage Auctions, accessed 2026-09-16).
- The obverse shows Nicholas II facing left; the reverse shows a crowned sword, orb, and scepter within a wreath (Heritage Auctions, accessed 2026-09-16).
Key dates and varieties
- 1896 (KM Y-60, Bitkin 322): the only year of the coronation rouble — mintage 191,000 (Heritage Auctions, accessed 2026-09-16).
Specifications
- composition
- weight
- diameter
- edge
- designers
- mint
Collector notes
- An isolated Heritage metadata figure of 12,540,000 appears to be copied from the regular 1896 rouble issue and is disregarded; the coronation rouble mintage is 191,000 (Heritage Auctions, accessed 2026-09-16).
- Edge inscription not verified from approved sources — left blank rather than guessed.
- COUNTERFEIT DIAGNOSTIC: no counterfeit die markers from an approved authority (PCGS, NGC, Heritage, Stack’s Bowers, Spink, or Krause) were located during research; professional certification is recommended for high-grade examples.
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