TSARDOM OF POLAND (KINGDOM/CONGRESS OF POLAND (1815-1867) - RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1721-1917)
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REIGN OF TSAR NIKOLAI I (1825-1855)
HOUSE OF HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP-ROMANOV
TWENTY GOLD ZLOTYCH (3 RUBLES) CERTIFIED BY NGC EXTRA FINE 45
OBV: CROWNED IMPERIAL RUSSIAN DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE ARMS WITH SHIELD ON BREAST ENCIRCLED BY THE COLLAR OF THE CHIVALRIC ORDER OF ST. ANDREW AND THREE SHIELDS ON EACH OUTSPREAD WING, SCEPTER AND ORB (GLOBUS CRUCIGER) IN TALONS; TAIL DIVIDES MINT OFFICIAL'S INITIALS.
REV: VALUE IN RUBLES FLANKED BY ROSETTES TOP WITH VALUE IN ZLOTYCH BENEATH; DATE BELOW; MINTMARK UNDER DATE.
C # 136.2
RUSSIAN POLAND HAD BEEN PARTITIONED AND GIVEN TO RUSSIA BY THE ALLIES AFTER THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. THE KINGDOM OR CONGRESS OF POLAND WAS CREATED BY THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA IN 1815, AND WAS IN PERSONAL UNION WITH THE TSAR AND A PART OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. IT OFFICIALLY BECAME PART OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1867, BUT NOT WITHOUT LARGE SCALE MILITARY UPRISINGS IN 1830 AND 1863.
THE KINGDOM HAD A LIBERAL CONSTITUTION AND CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL AUTONOMY, BUT AFTER THE UPRISINGS, WAS RULED BY VICEROYS OF THE TSAR AND DIVIDED INTO PROVINCES.
NICHOLAS I (1796-1855), WAS BORN THE THIRD SON OF TSAR PAUL I. HIS OLDEST BROTHER, TSAR ALEXANDER I, DIED OF TYPHUS IN 1825, AND UPON THE REFUSAL OF HIS NEXT OLDEST BROTHER, CONSTANTINE, TO TAKE THE THRONE, NICHOLAS BECAME TSAR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS, KING OF POLAND AND GRAND PRINCE OF FINLAND.
AT THE END OF HIS REACTIONARY AND AUTOCRATIC RULE, 7.7 MILLION SQUARE MILES WERE WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
CONTAINS 3.89 GRAMS OF .917 FINE GOLD (.1147 AGW)
19 MM IN DIAMETER
SAINT PETERSBURG MINT (???) (NGC ALWAYS LISTS AS CNB WHEN IT IS ROMANIZED AS SPB)
MINT OFFICIAL (??) (NGC LISTS AS NA BUT ROMANIZED IT IS PD) - PAVEL DANILOV (FROM 1834-1838)
