SUPREME MONARCHIAL COUNCIL
COMMEMORATING 60 YEARS OF THE TSARIST GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
RARE GOLD ROUBLE CERTIFIED BY NGC PROOF 68 ULTRA CAMEO
ONLY 100 GOLD RUBLES MINTED!
NGC HAS MIS-IDENTIFIED THIS ISSUE ON THE HOLDER AS SOVIET
OBV: WITHIN INNER CIRCLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF TSAR NICHOLAS II LEFT; ANNIVERSARY DATES OF REIGN "1894-1917"; RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CYRILLIC DENOMINATION RIGHT; SMALL NUMBER 8 UNDER BUST TRUNCATION; OUTER CIRCLE OLD SLAVIC OR PRE-REFORMED CYRILLIC ALPHABET LEGEND ABOVE AND BELOW.
REV: WITHIN INNER CIRCEL AN IMPERIAL RUSSIAN EAGLE WITH WINGS DISPLAYED AND CROWNED WITH MONOMAKH'S CAP (CHIEF RELIC AND SYMBOL OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOCRACY) AND A SWORD BEHIND; THE ANNIVERSARY DATES OF THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE OF THE TSARIST GOVERNMENT IN EXILE "1929-1989" ABOVE AND "60" BELOW; OLD STYLE CURSIVE CYRILLIC LEGEND AT TOP OF INNER CIRCLE AND OLD-SLAVONIC/PRE-REFORM CYRILLIC LEGEND AT BOTTOM OF INNER CIRCLE AND IN SOUROUNDING OUTER LEGEND (LEGEND ALLUDES TO THE 60 YEARS OF STRUGGLE AND THAT "GOD IS WITH US".
KM - X # M11a
IN MARCH OF 1917, IN THE WAKE OF RUSSIA HAVING SUFFERED SEVERE LOSSES AGAINST THE GERMANS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE ENSUING RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS WHICH EVENTUALLY BROUGHT THE SOVIETS TO POWER, TSAR NICHOLAS II, EMPEROR AND AUTOCRAT OF ALL THE RUSSIANS, WAS FORCED TO ABDICATE HIS THRONE. THE ROMANOV DYNASTY'S RULE OVER RUSSIA WAS AT AN END.
AFTER THE MURDER OF NICHOLAS II AND HIS FAMILY AND ALSO THE MURDER OF HIS BROTHER GRAND DUKE MICHAEL (WHO HAD REFUSED THE THRONE HIS BROTHER ABDICATED), GRAND DUKE KIRILL VLADIMIROVICH, ELDEST LIVING MALE DESCENDANT OF THE ROMANOV LINE, CLAIMED THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IMPERIAL HOUSE AND BECAME PRETENDER TO THE THRONE AND ASSUMED THE TITLE EMPEROR AND AUTOCRAT OF ALL THE RUSSIAS IN 1924. HE DIED IN 1938 AND WAS SUCCEDED IN PRETENCE BY HIS SON, VLADIMIR KIRILOVICH. HE, IN TURN, DIED IN 1992 AND HIS DAUGHTER, GRAND DUCHESS MARIA VLADIMIROVNA HAS CLAIMED HEADSHIP OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AND HAS BEEN PRETENDER TO THE IMPERIAL THRONE VER SINCE THAT TIME. THE CLAIMS OF THIS LINE OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN FAMILY OF HOLSTEIN-GOTTORP-ROMANOV IS NOT UNDISPUTED BY OTHER RELATIVES, NAMELY NICHOLAS ROMANOV, PRINCE OF RUSSIA, AND PRESENT HEAD OF THE ROMANOV FAMILY ASSOCIATION WHICH REPRESENTS THE INTERESTS OF THE MALE-LINE DESCENDANTS OF EMPEROR PAUL I.
THE RUSSIAN CZARIST GOVERNMENT IN EXILE SOUGHT TO SEE THE ROMANOV DYNASTY TO RESTORED POWER AND BRING ABOUT AN END TO SOVIET RULE IN RUSSIA. THE SOVIET ERA CAME TO AN END IN 1991, BUT THE ROMANOVS WERE NOT WELCOMED BACK TO RUSSIA.
CONTAINS 31.1 GRAMS OF .999 FINE GOLD (1 OZ AGW)
38 MM IN DIAMETER
ONLY 100 MINTED!
