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10 Leagues Humpback anglerfish
| Issuer | Saint Petersburg Mint (СПМД) |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a coloured depiction of an octopus wearing an old-fashioned diving helmet, rendered in a whimsical artistic style. Below the central motif appears the denomination '10 ЛЬЕ' (10 Leagues) alongside the Saint Petersburg Mint mark 'СПМД'. The series name 'НЕОБЫКНОВЕННЫЕ ОБИТАТЕЛИ ГЛУБИН' (Extraordinary Inhabitants of the Deep) is inscribed along the upper peripheral legend, and the year of issue '★2026★' appears along the lower edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | НЕОБЫКНОВЕННЫЕ ОБИТАТЕЛИ ГЛУБИН 10 ЛЬЕ СПМД ★2026★ |
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The humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) inhabits mesopelagic and bathypelagic depths reaching 2,000 meters, a creature so rarely encountered at the surface that specimens were not photographed alive in their natural habitat until 2014. Russia's ongoing "10 Leagues Under the Sea" series from the Saint Petersburg Mint draws on Verne's 1870 novel as a loose thematic frame for issuing coins devoted to genuinely obscure deep-sea fauna — a curiously literary justification for what is otherwise straightforward natural history numismatics.