Russian and Polish coins

I don't think that I know of any silver dengas. These are just known as silver kopeks.

If you want something that is of both Russian AND Polish, these are the only coins:





P.S. do check my omnicoin collection for other Russian coins - hopefully it's large enough.

 

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gxseries great coins mate & Ben can I ask where you got those from, I must try to get a couple for Mrs Orc's collection :bow:

 

Gxseries,those are nice coins of the Congress Kingdom of Poland,which was nominally an autonomous state under the Czar.

Here's an article; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_Kingdom_of_Poland .

Aidan.

 

That is not easy to tell. Finally the coin weight was fixed during Ivan the Terrible regency by his mother in law Elena Glinskaya. The weight of a kopeck was 0.68 gr, denga 0.34, polushka 0.17 Read here on page 11 http://peter1cheshua.narod.ru/Catalogues/Ivan4/1533_1617_Catalogue.html
By year 1611 the weight dropped till 0.51 and later till 0.48 gr. (Mikhail Fedorovich regency).
Then the weight was about 0.40 gr. (I mean kopecks - the ratio for denga ang polushka was changing in the same way).
By year 1698 the weight dropped again till 0.28.
In year 1717 the last wire coins were minted though heavy coins they started to mint approx in 1700 (i am not sure about this date, this is not my cup of tea).
You can get throgh the pages of the catalogue and to get more information. There are pages in English, just get through the pages.

 

Steve, (sorry for being so late in my response) I picked them up in an antique shop for $10.00 total. They had about 50 of them and I picked ten of the nicest.

 

$10 Ok I officialy Hate you now LOL

 

What's that, about six £...

 

I would've taken all 50! I paid $7.50 for just my one wire kopek, and even that's a pretty decent deal if you ask me.

 

Chuckle, I only had $10 to spend. Besides the others were in pretty worn/bad/fragemented shape. These were the best by far.

 

UA coins are available but only nowadays' ones...

 

Russian, Polish or Ukrainian coins don't have with each other absolutely nothing to do - it's completely different coins and I don't understand why there are in one common topic!

 

Because the topic was started (almost a year ago) by someone who asked whether others collect coins from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Latvia.

Now I for one have a couple of pieces from Latvia and Poland; coins from Russia and Ukraine I don't collect, with very few exceptions. And Belarus does not issue coins anyway, apart from NCLT made for collectors only ...

Christian

 

I collect the coins and notes of all three countries and they do have something in common they were all once communist and also under the Tsar control :smile plus of course they all had German occupation currency issed :kewl: