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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coopra, post: 23490, member: 1675&quot;]Russian copper coins are known from far ago...well I don&#039;t even know the dates. You are absolutely right when you say that it was Peter I who started with them. Before there were so called hammered silver and copper coins. In 14-15 centuries and before Russia was separated in many small independent principalities like Novgorod, Suzdal, Pskov, etc. Each of the city had its own coin. Also there wery many Tatar coins which came from the East. Later (~16 century) Moscow became center of Russia. It was tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich (1645-1676) who tried to reform money system in Russia and made first all Russian copper coins. But he failed. In the beggining of 18 century Peter I reformed the system and new kinds of coins appeared. I made a mistake when I told there were 17-19 centuries. 18-19 is true. I made several finds of hammered coins before. Yesterday was very poor day. 600 km. of driving for a couple of ****ty coins and a button. </p><p>Here is a picture of hammered pre-Peter period copper coins Moscow and Tver principalities. I got more pictures. This is just to understand what I am speaking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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