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  • 10 Rubles 2006, Y# 942, Russia, Federation, Russian Federation, Sakhalin Oblast
  • 10 Rubles 2006, Y# 942, Russia, Federation, Russian Federation, Sakhalin Oblast
Description

In 2005 the Central Bank of Russia commenced a series of bi-metallic 10 Rubles coins paying tribute to the regions of the Russian Federation. According to the Russian Constitution, the Russian Federation consists of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal importance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, all of which are equal subjects of the Russian Federation. Three Russian cities of federal importance have a status of both city and separate federal subject. In 1993, there were 89 federal subjects listed. By 2008, the number of federal subjects had been decreased to 83 because of several mergers. In 2014, Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea became the 84th and 85th federal subjects of Russia.

Issue date: 01.08.2006

Obverse

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 Saint Petersburg Mint trademark is at the bottom of the disc.

БАНК РОССИИ
10
РУБЛЕЙ
ММД
2006

Reverse

Depicts the coat of arms of Sakhalin Oblast, the inscriptions along the rim divided by two dots: above RUSSIAN FEDERATION, below SAKHALIN OBLAST.

Sakhalin Oblast, situated in the Russian Far East, encompasses the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. With an area of 87,100 square kilometers, it is administered from its largest city, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The oblast, home to approximately 500,000 people, is primarily inhabited by ethnic Russians, with a small Sakhalin Korean minority. Known for its abundant natural gas and oil resources, Sakhalin Oblast ranks as Russia's fourth wealthiest federal subject and richest oblast. It shares maritime borders with Khabarovsk Krai to the west, Kamchatka Krai to the north, and Hokkaido, Japan to the south.

The coat of arms of Sakhalin Oblast features a depiction in a silver shield of a blue column loaded with a left-facing gold Russian Cossack wagon from the 17th century (koch), sailing on silver waves. It is accompanied on each side by a black hill—a volcano with a single red flame emerging from its crater.

Artist: A. D. Schablykin

• РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ •
САХАЛИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ

Edge

300 corrugations and the inscription ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ (TEN RUBLES) recurring twice and divided by asterisks

ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ⋆ ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ⋆

10 Rubles

Y# 942 Schön# 931 CBR# 5514-0035
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Bi-Metallic
Ring Brass
Center Cupronickel
Weight 8.4 g
Diameter 27 mm
Thickness 2.1 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Moscow Mint (MMD)

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