Possible Russian coin

While organizing my Russian coins into my coin books, I came across a coin I am unable to find in the Standard Catalog. I home some one can enlighten me. I hope the Photos attach. JonySky

 

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Of course you wouldn't find that in a Russian catalogue. That's a coin from Bulguria, 10 stotinki.

 

I don't recognize it... and I tried running some of the cyrillic thru a translator and got nothing... However the crest resembles the Bulgarian crest. Its definetly not russian or serbian because bolth use the two headed eagle for state crest and have for a long time. From what I can tell, its probably Bulgarian because no other slavic country has a lion, the rest have eagles or horses or something like that.

 

Ahhh gxseries beat me. Haha.

 

10 stinkies

Thank you sir! I did look at the Bulgaria symbol in the instant identifier pages, but they had the Commie version. I do appreciate the information. JonySky

 

Google is your friend, Use google to find a good slavic translator and google images to look up country crests. Being Slavic also helps too

 

This 10 Stotinki is from the reign of Tsar Ferdinand (1908-18). Yes,Bulgaria's monarch was called the Tsar.I prefer to use 'Czar' for the Russian monarch.

Aidan.

 

In Russian the monarch is called Tsar also, Czar is an English word.

 

What was the Ukrainian monarch called? Was he called the Hetman? I know that Hetman is derived from the German 'hauptmann',which means 'captain'.

Aidan.

 

in russian monarch is called ЦАРЬ
but it can be spelled in many different ways in latin alphabet

 

The way things get anglicised, I am surprised the silent character Ь at the end didn't prompt some wayward Englishman in the 17th century to spell ЦАРЬ as Tsarb or Czarb

 

why should they? they just tried to write a word that would sound similar

 

It is a bulgarian 10 stotinki
my grandpa in bulgaria has a lot of them

 

Is that accurate? I always thought the difference between the two was an approximation of sound, common to Chinese-English spelling. Tao and Dao - because the true sound is really neither a T nor a D, or in this case neither a T nor really a C.

Learn something new every day.

edit - heh, I guess if I had read further in the thread I would have seen that issue has already been addressed... nevermind.

 

The proper title for the Russian monarch is $%^&&ç