Cyrillic coins

Екатерина Великая (Catherine the Great)

 

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It really isn't too bad. The alphabet alone is incredibly useful with coins. I have another hobby I use it in though so maybe I get more out of it than you.

 

very nice. good choice with PCGS because many fakes are around

 

Алфавит не такой уж и сложный. Кириллица такая же простая, как и русский. Английский - очень сложный язык, и многие символы звучат иначе, чем должны быть.

The alphabet is not that complicated. Cyrillic is as simple as Russian. English is a very complex language and many characters sound different from what they should be.

 

It isn't too hard if you know Greek. The Cyrillic alphabet was derived from the Greek alphabet. Sts. Cyril and Methodius also developed their own letters to represent sounds that don't occur in Greek. As I read that language, I can usually figure it out. Plus I like to sing Rachmaninoff and other Russian composers in Slavonic.

 

Cyrillic makes Greek pretty easy. There are a few different characters in Greek like Theta. And there are 33 characters in Cyrillic. It is fun to write notes on things in cursive Cyrillic - nobody can even decipher it here!

 

I have trouble with cursive Greek at times. But believe it or not, I use the medieval Byzantine language (in church) more so than the spoken Greek of today.

 

When I first started learning Russian my cursive Cyrillic handwriting was better than my English cursive. Now my writing is equally messy in both languages.

 

This coin remembers the Holodomor of the Ukrainian people in 1932 - legend in Ukrainian "Holodomor - genocide of Ukrainian people" and 1932 Remember 1933. This coin could be purchased in banks with small fee which included capsule.

 

I can.

 

"At September 22 1891 in the University Catholic Church by the local priest Casimir Chepropas the baby was christened with the name Jiri with all the rites of the sacrament..."

 

Since the christening was during the reign of Alexander III, here is my most recent Russian acquisition, a PCGS XF40 example of a scarce issue under his reign:

 

я надеюсь, что это так

 

Oh yeah
This is from Lithuania. Jurgis Šaltis, son of Jurgis and Aleksandra Tautkevičiūtė

I have practiced a lot

 

OK, now I see why it referred to a Kostel (Catholic church) instead of a Khram (Orthodox church).

 

I have plenty more with very strange discrepancies. Causes of death, cousin marriages, and more. It is a very interesting hobby. Coincidentally, my genealogy hobby and my coin hobby had an interesting non-connection.

here is a thread I made on the topic a while ago.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vdb-my-personal-genealogical-provenance-that-wasnt.377106/

 

@Siberian Man I've seen old Romanian church service books in Slavonic, and I've seen and had postage stamps from Finland inscribed in Russian. Did either of those countries issue coins using the Cyrillic alphabet?

 

Russian composers rock, especially Rachmaninoff ad Mussorgsky.

 

Hmmm...sounds more like Alabama.