5 rubles — USSR (1989) — Cathedral of the Annunciation

Special facts

A 1989 5-rouble coin with the late 15th-century Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The cathedral was the private church of the grand princes and tsars, built by Pskov masters in 1484–1489, and its iconostasis holds icons by Theophanes the Greek and Andrei Rublev. The cathedral’s nine domes are gilded, and the coin’s mintage was some 1.7 million.

About the period

The currency reform of 1961 was a 10-to-1 redenomination: from 1 January 1961 old money was exchanged for new money of one tenth the face value. The coins and banknotes of the 1961 pattern circulated until the end of the Soviet Union. More about the period “1961 Monetary Reform”, 1961 — 1991

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1989

Other items of the period

• 1988
• 1 ruble (1988) — Leo Tolstoy Y# 216
• 5 rubles (1988) — Leningrad - Peter the Great Monument Y# 217
• 5 rubles (1988) — Millennium of Russia Y# 218
• 5 rubles (1988) — St. Sophia Cathedral Y# 219
• 1989
• 1 ruble (1989) — Modest Mussorgsky Y# 220
• 1 ruble (1989) — Mikhail Lermontov Y# 228
• 1 ruble (1989) — Hamza Hakim-zade Niyazi Y# 232
• 1 ruble (1989) — Mikhail Eminescu Y# 233
• 1 ruble (1989) — Taras Shevchenko Y# 235
• 3 rubles (1989) — Armenian Earthquake Relief Y# 234
• 5 rubles (1989) — Pokrovsky Cathedral Y# 221
• 5 rubles (1989) — Samarkand Y# 229
• 5 rubles (1989) — Cathedral of the Annunciation Y# 230
• 1990
• 1 ruble (1990) — Pyotr Tchaikovsky Y# 236
• 1 ruble (1990) — Marshal Zhukov Y# 237
• 1 ruble (1990) — Anton Chekhov Y# 240
• 1 ruble (1990) — Janis Rainis Y# 257
• 1 ruble (1990) — Francisk Scorina Y# 258
• 1990–1991
• 1 ruble (1990–1991) — Alisher Navoi Y# 260
• 1 ruble (1990–1991) — Pyotr Lebedev Y# 261
• 1990
• 5 rubles (1990) — The Grand Palace in Peterhof Y# 241
• 5 rubles (1990) — Uspenski Cathedral Y# 246
• 5 rubles (1990) — Matenadaran Depository Yerevan Y# 259
• 1991
• 1 ruble (1991) — Sergei Prokofiev Y# 263
• 1 ruble (1991) — Konstantin Ivanov Y# 282

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