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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 26423757, member: 12789&quot;][ATTACH=full]1685925[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a type set of the Siberian coins that I completed with the acquistion of the PITA polushka ca. 2000.&nbsp; The Siberian coins were a bit smaller than the regular Russian coins because the mint in Kolyvan didn&#039;t have sophisticated refining equipment to remove the trace amounts of silver from the bronze(allegedly!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Curiously the larger denominations of 5 kopek and 10 kopek are usually easier to collect - perhaps because the smaller coins were lost over time.&nbsp; I heard a story years ago that a Siberian coin was excavated at Ft. Ross in California.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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