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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4574625, member: 102103&quot;]Day 90:&nbsp; Congress Kingdom of Poland (Russian rule), 10 Groszy Copper, 1840</p><p><br /></p><p>This one won&#039;t be very clear unless I rip it out of the packaging to get a better </p><p>photo.&nbsp; Aged bronze under a clear film is hard to get adequate contrast on.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After the Napoleonic wars, Poland was partitioned into sections under Russian, </p><p>Austrian and Prussian rule.&nbsp; Congress Poland was the section under Russian rule.</p><p>The Kingdom was in a personal union with Czarist Russia, thus the double-headed</p><p>eagle symbol on the obverse.&nbsp; Eventually, Russian rule became more and more </p><p>overt, especially after a rebellion in 1831 (which issued some of its own, rebel</p><p>coinage).</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly, this denomination was minted in both <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces20511.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces20511.html" rel="nofollow">billon</a> (0.192) and <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces128894.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces128894.html" rel="nofollow">copper</a> in the </p><p>year 1840.&nbsp; The copper seems to be a single year type.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One grosz was fixed at 1/2 Russian kopek.&nbsp; From 1840-1850 grosz denominated </p><p>coinage was phased out, and the ruble was used as the official currency unit.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132606[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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