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Coin "50 Years of the Man’s First Space Flight"
| Name | 50 Years of the Man’s First Space Flight |
| Presented by | Saint Petersburg Mint of Goznak (Russia) |
| Nominal value | 3 rubles |
| Metal | Silver 925° |
| Thickness | 3,3 |
| Mintage | 7500 |
| Production quality | Proof |
| Description of obverse and reverse | The obverse: in the centre - the emblem of the Bank of Russia [the two-headed eagle with wings down, under it - the semicircular inscription "БАНК РОССИИ" (BANK OF RUSSIA)] framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the rim - on top: "ТРИ РУБЛЯ" (THREE RUBLES), below: to the left - indications of the precious metal and its fineness, in the centre - the year of issue "2011 г." (2011), to he right - the fine metal content and the mint trade mark. The reverse: on the wide horizontal matted stripe in the centre of the coin disc, to the right - the facial portrait of the cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin in the space-suit, to the left - inscription in four lines: "50 ЛЕТ ПЕРВОГО ПОЛЕТА ЧЕЛОВЕКА В КОСМОС" (50 YEARS OF THE FIRST MAN’S SPACE FLIGHT), in the lower part of the disc against the background of the celestial sky - the facsimile inscription of Gagarin, in the background - the colored image of the Earth, to the right - the celestial sky. |
| Designer | The artist: S.A. Kozlov. The sculptor: Computer simulation |
| Producer | Saint Petersburg Mint of Goznak (Russia) |
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