2 rubles — Russian Federation (2005) — Cancer

Obverse

Designer/engraver: S.A. Kozlov

Reverse

Designer/engraver: A.S. Khazov

Special facts

Silver 2 roubles of 2005 with Cancer: the northern tropic is named after this constellation, where the Sun stood at the summer solstice in antiquity.

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: 2005

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