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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2611721, member: 19463&quot;]That is part of the reason those were chosen. The milled Elizabeth was ahead of her time and, after the experiment, they returned to hammered coins.&nbsp; Russia was really slow to enter the modern era.&nbsp; The last wire was at the beginning of the reign of Peter the Great who made the old ways (like beards - anyone have a beard token?) illegal and switched from medieval wires to round rubles.&nbsp; I could have used a Peter for the next century since he crossed the border but I liked the Mikhail coin better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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