The Millennium of Founding the City of Kazan

Obverse

in the centre – the Emblem of the Bank of Russia [the two-headed eagle with wings down, lower – the semicircular inscription – «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA)] framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the rim: at the top – «СТО РУБЛЕЙ» (ONE HUNDRED RUBLES), at the bottom – the year of issue «2005», the letters to the left indicate the metal sign and the fineness, to the right – the fine metal content and the mint trade mark.

Reverse

in the cartouche, against the background of the Kazan city outlines – an oriental Mausoleum, to the right – a warrior’s figure, in the background to the left – akhan’s Mausoleum and a small minaret, to the right – the Black Chamber. The inscription along the rim on the matted field of a national ornament – «ВЕЛИКИЕ БОЛГАРЫ» (GREAT BOLGARIANS).

Authors

The Artist: A.D. Schablykin.
The Sculptor: A.A. Dolgopolova.
ST. Petersburg Mint (СПМД).
The Edge: 300 Corrugations.

The Historical and Archaeological Reserve «Great Bulgarians» is situated in Tatarstan, there, where therests of Bolgar town used to be the capital of medievalState of Volzhsko-Kamskaya Bolgaria formed in the Xth century in the area of the Middle Volga and Kamarivers.