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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coopra, post: 244429, member: 1675&quot;]That is not easy to tell. Finally the coin weight was fixed during Ivan the Terrible regency by his mother in law Elena Glinskaya. The weight of a kopeck was 0.68 gr, denga 0.34, polushka 0.17 Read here on page 11 <a href="http://peter1cheshua.narod.ru/Catalogues/Ivan4/1533_1617_Catalogue.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://peter1cheshua.narod.ru/Catalogues/Ivan4/1533_1617_Catalogue.html" rel="nofollow">http://peter1cheshua.narod.ru/Catalogues/Ivan4/1533_1617_Catalogue.html</a></p><p>By year 1611 the weight dropped till 0.51 and later till 0.48 gr. (Mikhail Fedorovich regency).</p><p>Then the weight was about 0.40 gr. (I mean kopecks - the ratio for denga ang polushka was changing in the same way).</p><p>By year 1698 the weight dropped again till 0.28.</p><p>In year 1717 the last wire coins were minted though heavy coins they started to mint approx in 1700 (i am not sure about this date, this is not my cup of tea).</p><p>You can get throgh the pages of the catalogue and to get more information. There are pages in English, just get through the pages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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