RUSSIAN FEDERATION
COMMEMORATING RUSSIAN POLYMATH MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV
AND THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
100 GOLD ROUBLES CERTIFIED BY NGC PERFECT PROOF 70 ULTRA CAMEO
OBV: RUSSIAN DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE NATIONAL EMBLEM WITHIN BEADING; DENOMINATION AND DATE IN OUTER CIRCLE ABOVE.
REV: FACING HALF BUST OF LOMONOSOV SEATED AT DESK HOLDING QUILL AND PAPERS IN HIS HANDS.
KMY # 357
MIKHAIL VASILYEVICH LOMONOSOV (1711-1765) WAS A RUSSIAN POLYMATH AND AUTHOR WHO HAD A GREAT IMPACT ON MANY FIELDS INCLUDING SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND LITERATURE. DURING THE 18TH CENTURY AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, LOMONSOV DELVED INTO THE NATURAL SCIENCES, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, GEOLOGY, MINEROLOGY, ART, HISTORY, PHILOLOGY, OPTICAL DEVICES, POETRY, LITERATURE, AND OTHER AREAS OF STUDY. CONSIDERED THE FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN RUSSIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE, HE IS ALSO REGARDED AS THE FATHER OF RUSSIAN SCIENCES. NOTABLY, HE DISCOVERED THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PLANET VENUS, DEVELOPED THE LAW OF MASS CONSERVATION IN CHEMICAL REACTIONS, AND POSTULATED THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT. HE WROTE A GRAMMAR THAT REFORMED THE RUSSIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE BY COMBINING CONTEMPORARY VERNACULAR WITH THE OLD SLAVONIC TONGUE. THE LOMONOSOV GOLD MEDAL, ESTABLISHED IN 1959, IS ANNUALLY AWARDED BY THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES TO ONE RUSSIAN AND ONE FOREIGN SCIENTIST RECIPIENT.
CONTAINS 17.50 GRAMS OF 900 FINE GOLD
0.5064 OZ AGW (15.55 GRAMS ACTUAL GOLD WEIGHT)
30 MM IN DIAMETER
5,700 MINTED
