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The biggest Russian coins – 5 kilo gold and silver coins minted in the 21st century by St.Petersburg mint are on display. Among exhibits are the smallest coins as well.

Bank in Saint-Petersburg. 1834.
State banknote. 50 rubles. Counterfeited by Napoleons’ army.

Coins minted of wire got the name of “fish scales”. Coins are small but nevertheless very often have “rich” design – not only people but also fantastic animals are minted on them.

Not only money but also design projects are on display on the temporary exhibition “From kerenka to sovznak: money and revolution”. Among them are designs of 1918 with new symbolic.

Plenty of unique items are can be seen in the museum. These are not only coins and banknotes. For instance approved design of the USSR coat of arms of 1923 is on display.

Participants of the 15th International Financial Congress headed by Elvira Nabiullina, Chairman of the Bank of Russia, were among the first guests of the exposition.

Friday, July 1, 2016, saw a ceremonial opening of the History of Money Exposition located in Anninskiy Cavalier of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, and Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak, cut the band in front of the entrance to the exposition.

The unique giant coins – the gold and silver commemorative coins with the weight of 5 kilograms each – are on display at the History of Money Exposition. They are the biggest and heaviest coins ever produced in Russia. They were struck at the Saint Petersburg Mint – Branch of Goznak.

“Ethnonumismatics” installation shows the “auxiliary” application of coins as a decorative element for clothes, ornaments and interior objects.

Many objects displayed in the History of Money Exposition are demonstrated to the general public for the first time ever. Among them, there are projects of the pre-revolution state banknotes and sketches of the soviet banknotes; authentic punches for coin and medal minting of the 18th – 20th centuries; trial coins of the 1990s.

In the center of the History of Money Exposition, there is the “Million” installation. It is a composition consisting of one million coins with the face value of one rouble.