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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;muhfff, post: 24661896, member: 71559&quot;]This kind of jewelry was definitely made during czarist era. For example in Estonia, which was part of the Russian empire from 1710 (or so) to 1918, it was particularly popular in Setomaa region. The amount of silver jewelry showed the wealth of the farm. For example something like this (the picture is taken from <a href="https://tarkvanem.ee/kasupere-artiklid/seto-ulemsootska/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tarkvanem.ee/kasupere-artiklid/seto-ulemsootska/" rel="nofollow">https://tarkvanem.ee/kasupere-artiklid/seto-ulemsootska/</a>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1572181[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have had this kind of coins myself also, but unfortunately cannot find the pictures at the moment. I definitely had a 1727 Anna rouble as the oldest one and i know that there are similar coins from Swedish era also (17th Century coins).</p><p>But nowadays the mounts are removed from coins, because coin collectors are wealthier than those interested in ethnography.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, during soviet time, the soviet roubles were used, if the silver coins were not available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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