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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 121127, member: 4373&quot;]That&#039;s no problem. I can do that right now for you. Edit to say, all of the *SILVER* coins minted around that era were minted in St. Petersburg. The copper coins were minted in various other mints including St. Petersburg mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>common to all three of them is the mintmark C.||.b. which is in cyrillic, the mintmark of Saint. Petersburg. </p><p><br /></p><p>Starting with the 1809 ruble, the text at the obverse means &quot;Russian government money&quot;. This series wasn&#039;t too popular - obviously as no one wants their money to be considered as government money. You can have the possiblity of two mintmasters there as you didn&#039;t mention it to us, either FG or MK. It was in the following year that the design was changed to &quot;Pure Silver of 4 Zol. 21. Dolya&quot; (Note, Zol, Dolya are the old Russian weight units) and the wings of the eagles are more elaborate and with the year at the bottom of the coin instead of the top, which is not too common as most of the time in the previous crowns, the year is usually located at the top. This was done probably because it is easier to read the text &quot;Moneta ruble&quot; which means &quot;coin worth of one ruble&quot;. This design lasted a bi longer than the other series, until 1826, which was taken over by the wings down series. The wings down ironically was not too popular as the wings were rarely set downwards and hence pretty detested. The silver crown only lasted till 1830 although the gold 5 rubles had a longer life from 1817-1831 and the copper from 1830-1839.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edge type from the 1809 ruble from the other two differs in the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>1809: Of the eighty third and one third standard</p><p>1910-1885 Sil(ver) of the 83 1/3 stardard 4zol(otniks), 82 14/25 parts</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight of all of them should be 20.73grams and of 83 and 1/3 fineness. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that might be all of them hopefully. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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