2 rubles — Russian Federation (2008) — Physicist L.D. Landau
Physicist-theorist L.D. Landau - the 100th Anniversary of the Birthday
Y# 1131
← 10000 rubles (2007) — Khakasiya's Voluntary Entering into Russia
2 rubles (2008) — Academician V.P. Glushko →
Obverse
Designer/engraver: S.A. Kozlov
Reverse
Designer/engraver: Computer simulation
Special facts
Silver 2 roubles of 2008 for the centenary of Lev Landau (1908–1968), Nobel laureate of 1962 for the theory of superfluid helium and co-author of the famous "Course of Theoretical Physics".
About the period
Modern Russia is the money after the redenomination of 1998, when a thousand old roubles became one new rouble. The coins and banknotes of the 1997 pattern are still in circulation. More about the period “Modern Russia”, 1997 — to present
Coins and banknotes of this year: 2008
Specifications
- Period
- Modern Russia
- Currency
- 1 ruble = 100 kopecks
- Issue type
- Collector
- Series
- Outstanding Personalities of Russia (127 in the series)
- Mint mark
- Saint Petersburg Mint
- Metal
- Silver
- Fineness
- 925
- Precious metal weight
- 15.725 g
- Diameter
- 33.0 mm
- Thickness
- 2.4 mm
- Weight
- 17.0 g
- Shape
- Round
- Edge
- Reeded — 195 corrugations
- Orientation
- Medal (↑↑)
Variants
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- SPB
- Saint Petersburg Mint. The mint in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1724 in the Peter and Paul Fortress. It was called the Petrograd Mint in 1914–1924 and the Leningrad Mint in 1924–1991.
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