Depicts the inscriptions along the circumference BANK OF RUSSIA at the top and date at the bottom. There are images of branches of the bay tree and oak tree on the left and on the right of the outer ring, respectively, their elements extending onto the disc. The number ‘10’ and the inscription RUBLES below denoting the face value of the coin are in the centre of the disc. The digit ‘0’ features a security element inside in the form of the figure ‘10’ and the inscription RUB visible at various viewing angles to the coin surface. The Moscow Mint trademark is at the bottom of the disc.

Depicts the Citadel of Derbend against the background of mountains, an image of the municipal arms of Derbent at the upper left, and the inscriptions on the outer ring: ANCIENT TOWNS OF RUSSIA along the upper circumference and DERBENT along the lower circumference.

Citadel of Derbend was built by the Persian Sassanian Empire as a defensive structure against hostile nomadic people in the north, and continuously repaired or improved by later Arab, Mongol, Timurid, Shirvan and Iranian kingdoms until the early course of the 19th century, as long as its military function lasted. The fortress was built under the direction of the Sassanid emperor Khosrow (Chosroes) I.

Artist: A. S. Kunats
Sculptor: I. I. Kopytkin

300 corrugations and the inscription TEN RUBLES recurring twice and divided by asterisks