125th Birthday of A.N. Skryabin

Series: Outstanding Personalities of Russia

Date of Issue

27.01.1997

Catalogue number

5110-0015

Outstanding Personalities of Russia

Date of Issue

27.01.1997

Catalogue number

5110-0015

Denomination

2 rubles

Quality

Proof

Metal, fineness

Silver 500/1000

Total weight, g

15.87((±0.15)

Fine metal content not less than, g

7.78

Diameter, mm

33.00(±0.20)

Thickness, mm

2.40(±0.20)

Mintage, pcs

50,000

Obverse

the two-headed eagle designed by artist I. Bilibin. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «ДВА РУБЛЯ 1997 г.» (TWO RUBLES 1997), at the bottom — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA). The letters below indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the fine metal content and the mint trademark.

Reverse

the portrait of A.N. Skryabin against a вackground of the lyre from the score cover of the symphonic poem «Prometheus» and a music extract from it. The inscription at the bottom along the rim: «1872. А.Н. СКРЯБИН. 1915» (1872. A.N. SKRYABIN. 1915).

Authors

The artist: A.A. Kolodkin
The sculptor: V.I. Zaslavski
Moscow Mint (ММД)
The edge: 195 corrugations

Alexander Nikolaevich Skryabin (1872-1915) – Russian composer and pianist, professor of the Moscow Conservatory (1898-1903) – composed 10 sonatas, poems, preludes, and etudes for the piano. His works «Prometheus», «The Divine Poem» (The Third Symphony), and «The Poem of Ecstasy» are especially popular. In 1922 the Skryabin museum was founded in Moscow.

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