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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ColonialDave, post: 1753834, member: 56493&quot;]Here is a little more about Russia American coin finds in Alaska and at Fort Ross, California.&nbsp; Links:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Alaska&#039;s Department of Natural Resources - Castle Hill Archaeological Project:</p><p><a href="http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/oha/castlehill/chptseven.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/oha/castlehill/chptseven.htm" rel="nofollow">http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/oha/castlehill/chptseven.htm</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/oha/castlehill/figures/figure75.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Examples of Russian coins from the Castle Hill, Stika, Alaska workshop area. The three on the left are <i>denga</i> (1/2 kopek pieces) one shown with 1748 date; the one on the right is a <i>polushka</i> (1/4 kopek piece).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/oha/castlehill/figures/pict0063.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Japanese coins (<i>Kan-ei Tsuho</i>) from the Castle Hill, Stika, Alaska workshop area,Edo Period (1638-1868).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>-Excavation of an Early Contact village in&nbsp; Kenai Peninsula, Aialik Bay, Alaska – where a 1748 Russian half-kopeck coin was found.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]276333[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://www.nps.gov/akso/nature/science/ak_park_science/PDF/2004Vol3-1/The-Kenai-Fjords-Oral-History-and-Archeology-Project.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/akso/nature/science/ak_park_science/PDF/2004Vol3-1/The-Kenai-Fjords-Oral-History-and-Archeology-Project.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.nps.gov/akso/nature/science/ak_park_science/PDF/2004Vol3-1/The-Kenai-Fjords-Oral-History-and-Archeology-Project.pdf</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.novanumismatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/1770-5-Kopecks-Kolyvan-Combined.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>-Excavation of the Fort Ross, California cemetery - where a Siberian copper 5 Kopek from the Kolyvan mint from the reign of Catherine II was found.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcas.org/assets/documents/PagesfromV39N4-2.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcas.org/assets/documents/PagesfromV39N4-2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcas.org/assets/documents/PagesfromV39N4-2.pdf</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.geocities.ws/sgodin_98/gallery/inav_iii.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.geocities.ws/sgodin_98/gallery/ivan_iii_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>-1740 Ivan III pattern rouble at the Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska.</p><p><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/sgodin_98/gallery/gallery.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.geocities.ws/sgodin_98/gallery/gallery.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.ws/sgodin_98/gallery/gallery.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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