Howdy, I have long forgotten about this Russian Coin I had that I got free from a dealer in El Paso TX since it was badly damaged and i've had it ever since but never really figured out much about this coin. All I know from the coin that it is from 1870. Here are the scanned images: 1.) Larger Size 2.) Larger Size Thanks in advance.
I can't read it properly but if I am not wrong, it's a rather huge copper hunk 5 kopek coin, struck in Ekaterinburg in 1870. That is what EM stands for - Ekaterinburg mint. You can see my examples here: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_imperial/cu_group_xviii.htm
There's no need for that Spiffy. At the end of the word kopek, it's either "a" "i" or "b" and texguy's example definitely shows a "b". It's like the plural form of kopek.
What is the diameter of a 5 kopek coin? @ gxseries I went to your website that you showed me and the Russian wording is like the one in this image well just the bottom half of it. I looked up the Russian Word for 5 and it matches what is written on my coin.
Without a doubt, that's a five kopeck piece - you can see it from the writing and even from the shape of the eagle.
Sorry, its not plural form. <---- Russian If there were more detailed scans would be able to read and translate it for you, sorry guys, cant make out detail. =P
I have tired scanning it at 1200, 4800 DPI and it still looks the same which means you can't really read it that well by scanning but I will write down what it does say in Russian: пять КОПѢЕКЪ
Yes it is maksimfa. I don't need a Russian to tell me the difference between a kopek, kopek"a" and kopek"b" where kopek is a single kopek, kopek"a" is for 2-4 kopek and kopek"b" is 5 or above.
More specifically, the a is ended to word is added to the word to make it femine. All nouns in russian are either masculine, feminin, or dont know how to translate, but neither gender. You add the a, for Kopeika, as it is a feminin noun, so the single is an a. 2 to 4 is kopeiki, 5 to 10 kopeek
